“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“Truly
I try to be good but sometimes
a person just has to break out and
act like the wild and springy thing
one used to be. It’s impossible not
to remember wild and want it back. So
if someday you can’t find me you might
look into that tree or—of course
it’s possible—under it.”
― A Thousand Mornings: Poems
I try to be good but sometimes
a person just has to break out and
act like the wild and springy thing
one used to be. It’s impossible not
to remember wild and want it back. So
if someday you can’t find me you might
look into that tree or—of course
it’s possible—under it.”
― A Thousand Mornings: Poems
“Who can guess the impatience of stone to be ground down, to be a part of something livelier?”
― A Thousand Mornings: Poems
― A Thousand Mornings: Poems
“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“For some things
there are no wrong seasons.
Which is what I dream for me.”
― A Thousand Mornings: Poems
there are no wrong seasons.
Which is what I dream for me.”
― A Thousand Mornings: Poems
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