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“What I know I could put into a pack
as if it were bread and cheese, and carry it
on one shoulder,
important and honorable, but so small!
While everything else continues, unexplained
and unexplainable.”
― New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
as if it were bread and cheese, and carry it
on one shoulder,
important and honorable, but so small!
While everything else continues, unexplained
and unexplainable.”
― New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
“isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Hope is a bird that sings the songs of possibilities from the deepness of the heart.”
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“free time is an illusion. It’s what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.”
― Alanna: The First Adventure
― Alanna: The First Adventure
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