Quote collection
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"I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn. But where The wind is westerly, Where gnarled November makes the spiders fly Into the apparitions of the sky, They purpose nothing but their ease and die Urgently beating east to sunrise and the sea."
"What can the dove of Jesus give You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live, The dove has brought an olive branch to eat."
"Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes"
"Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive."
"The Lord survives the rainbow of His will."
"I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn."
"September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn."
"We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor."
"It's a completely powerful and serious book, as good as anything in prose or poetry written by a 'beat' writer, and one of the most alive books written by any American for years. I don't see how it could be considered immoral."
"Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone"
"Once fishing was a rabbit's foot-- O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot"
"And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill."
"I will catch Christ with a greased worm, And when the Prince of Darkness stalks My bloodstream to its Stygian term . . . On water the Man-Fisher walks."
"the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath"
"Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye"
"But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot"