“He felt in his heart a sort of remorse which bid him respect a creature that had done him no harm.”
― A Passion In The Desert
― A Passion In The Desert
“Poets talk about “spots of time,” but it is really fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.”
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
“It is not easy to describe lucidly in short notes to a poem the various approaches to a fortified castle,”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
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