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Encountered this late-in-life prose poem by Czeslaw Milosz while kicking around different epigraphs for my book; now hearing a voice say "you can stop worrying ... you did what was assigned to you" at age 90 is officially a life goal: https://t.co/jby9VlDiuy
After you pass a certain age, things you were able to do easily aren’t so easy anymore
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Les poètes comme les hommes vivent dans la réalité du monde. Ils respirent un air particulier, se nourrissent des produits de leur terre, regardent des paysages singuliers. La nature féconde le regard, le regard nourrit l’inspiration, l’inspiration engendre l’œuvre.
Sylvain Tesson • Un été avec Homère (French Edition)
Anyone who wants to can be surprised by the beauty or pain of the natural world, of the human mind and heart, and can try to capture just that—the details, the nuance, what is.
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
SHORT DIALOGUE ON THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF OUR TRUE BEING BY DEATH.
Arthur Schopenhauer • The Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)
Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?
Alice Munro, Dear Life
Poetry knows the spaces of transition; it traverses and expands them. Poems live in uncertainty.