“Galway Kinnell that Ma had underlined in her book: I have to say I am relieved it is over: At the end I could feel only pity For that urge toward more life. . . . Goodbye.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“He’s carried dead men, felt the weight of their forfeited hopes. He will do what needs to be done.”
― Small Mercies: A Novel
― Small Mercies: A Novel
“Galway Kinnell, almost a prose poem. (“If one day it happens / you find yourself with someone you love / in a café at one end /of the Pont Mirabeau, at the zinc bar / where wine stands in upward opening glasses…”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“We trained hard—but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”
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