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Don’t bother me. I’ve just been born. The butterfly’s loping flight carries it through the country of…
Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun,
There is, all around us, this country of original fire. You know what I mean. The sky, after all, stops at nothi…
Understand, I am always trying to… what the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape and so, last week,
Come with me into the field of sunflowers. Their faces are burnished disks, their dry spines creak like ship masts,
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
The river Of my childhood, That tumbled Down a passage of rocks And cut-work ferns,
Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over. It is heaven-sent. It flows through me like the blue wave.
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her poc… full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone o…
Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime.
Fat, black, slick, galloping in the pitch of the waves, in the pearly fields of the sea,
Not quite four a.m., when the rapt… strikes me from sleep, and I rise from the comfortable bed and go to another room, where my books ar… in their neat and colorful rows. H…
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.
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice—