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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…
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
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
All winter the water has crashed over the cold the cold sand. Now it breaks over the thin branch of your body.
The first fish I ever caught would not lie down quiet in the pail but flailed and sucked
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…
Fat, black, slick, galloping in the pitch of the waves, in the pearly fields of the sea,
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime.
Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories,
The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all the rest
When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the bramb… nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice—
Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light,
I’d seen their hoofprints in the deep needles and knew they ended the long night under the pines, walking
In winter all the singing is in the tops of the trees where the wind-bird with its white eyes