“You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours: A New Translation with Commentary (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
― Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours: A New Translation with Commentary (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
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