The first fish I ever caught would not lie down quiet in the pail but flailed and sucked

Don’t bother me. I’ve just been born. The butterfly’s loping flight carries it through the country of…

Scatterghost, it can’t float away. And the rain, everybody’s brother, won’t help. And the wind all these… flying like ten crazy sisters ever…

Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun,

On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime.

Meditation is old and honorable, s… not sit, every morning of my life,… looking into the shining world? Be… attended to, delight, as well as h… Can one be passionate about the ju…

I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is

The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all the rest

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your kn… for a hundred miles through the de… You only have to let the soft anim… love what it loves.

When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the… to buy me, and snaps the purse shu… when death comes

Is the soul solid, like iron? Or is it tender and breakable, lik… the wings of a moth in the beak of… Who has it, and who doesn’t? I keep looking around me.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice—

From a single grain they have mult… When you look in the eyes of one you have seen them all. At the edges of highways they pick at limp things.

At Blackwater Pond the tossed wat… after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls…

Don’t call this world adorable, or… It’s frisky, and a theater for mor… The eyelash of lightning is neithe… The struck tree burns like a pilla… But the blue rain sinks, straight…