Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.

You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.