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“We crossed this river then and pulled away, and in the empty fields the lark still spilled praise.”
― To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
― To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
“I look at Wolfgang and I see someone smart and kind," says Andrew. "I want him to be critical, but not at the expense of camaraderie. His compassion and his intelligence are complex enough to allow for both if we just don't--"
"Don't what?"
"If we don't get in his way.”
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"Don't what?"
"If we don't get in his way.”
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“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“I do not have a purpose any more than a mouse or a slug or a thornbush does. Why do you have to have one in order to feel content?”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“Writing a poem is like trying to halt a supertanker by holding a dandelion up to it. You can laugh at the frivolity of it. You can ridicule the person for doing such a thing. But—and I’m not saying this makes you one of them—when you laugh at poets, you laugh alongside tyrants. You are standing next to the powerful and the angry and the rich, and you might as well be a bully too, laughing at the weak person cutting snowflakes out of tissue paper. Yes, you are right. But is right everything you want to be?”
― Hitomi
― Hitomi
Lori’s 2025 Year in Books
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