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X I have a talent for twisting my tongue into silence as tight as a fist (like a cherry stem)
“I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“As I write, more and more of my cells are replaced by language. When they burn a writer's body, the smoke will be shaped llike letters.”
― Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
― Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
“There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
Today God gives milk
and I have the pail”
― The Awful Rowing Toward God
There is hope everywhere.
Today God gives milk
and I have the pail”
― The Awful Rowing Toward God
“I know that nothing has ever been real
without my beholding it.
All becoming has needed me.
My looking ripens things
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
without my beholding it.
All becoming has needed me.
My looking ripens things
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“We are part mineral beings too — our teeth are reefs, our bones are stones — and there is a geology of the body as well as of the land. It is mineralization — the ability to convert calcium into bone — that allows us to walk upright, to be vertebrate, to fashion the skulls that shield our brains.”
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
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