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“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.”
― Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
― Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
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“I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.”
― New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.”
― New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
―
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
―
Elin A’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Elin A’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,692 books
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24 friends
2,112 books
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31 friends
146 books
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19 books
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904 books
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132 books
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28 friends
139 books
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20 friends
Favorite Genres
Biography, Classics, Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Spirituality, and outdoors
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