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"Perhaps in Tibet, in the old holy places, they also have such fragile bells. Or are birds really just that, bells come to us—come to this road in America—let us bow our heads and remember now how we used to do it, say a prayer."

Yooo, Jack Nicholson in The Shining reference. The King-verse continues.

"We bring our own worlds to bear in foreign landscapes in order to clarify them for ourselves ... The risk we take is of finding our final authority in the metaphors rather than in the land. To inquire into the intricacies of a distant landscape, then, is to provoke thoughts about one's own interior landscape, and the familiar landscape of memory. The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves."

I have swapped to the audiobook

"You cannot look at Western painting, let alone the work of the luminists, without sensing that hunger. Western civilization, I think, longs for light as it longs for blessing, or for peace or God." !!!

"With my binoculars I could follow the scarves of turquoise melt water unfurling 400 feet to the sea."

I picked up a physical copy so I can swap from my kindle and start UNDERLINING THINGS with a pen woooo

I'm tearing up in the jury duty waiting room because these poems are so moving

"we walk into space unawed / unknown to ourselves / years lost in thought / a thousand blind moments / teach us when morning comes / to be moved" oh MAN, Psalm 90 hits different in this one

Goodreads has a new logo??! Big news!!

From the introduction, "How can I know the author's intentions? I can only imagine them. But if I fail to imagine them, I miss a deep continuity preserved by great, ancient poetry ... For myself, I had to discover the many human voices behind the liturgy. I had to hear the original poems."

Guess who finally cracked this bad boy open (after almost an entire year of not touching it) 😎🤑😤💪 ((If it were an Animal Crossing villager it would be guilting me by saying it thought I'd died.))

Steven Moffat name drop

what the HECK is happening. I am MAD at the Other but maybe I need more CONTEXT

The prose is so vivid, I'm reminded of that sequence about the cold in "The Secret History".