Quote of the Week

"God was a wild god,
into the most mindless rock,
but graceful,
looking- this excited me-
like no one I could love, "

~ Stephen Dunn, Dancing with God

Quote of the Week

I'm sorry that the Quote of the Week, has had an extended absence. Ususally, I pull the quotes from whatever it is that I'm reading. And while I've gone through a good deal of fiction this fall, I haven't been reading the types of things I know I should.

So, resolving for the hundreth time to do better, I give you two quotes to make up for the past quoteless months:

"But after awhile
the light I didn't believe in
shone in anyways through the windows,"
~Stephen Dunn, an excerpt from Round Trip

"In winter
seven stars
walk across a crystal forest."
~Soen Nakagawa (1907-1984)

Quote of the Week

"Because finally the personal
is all that matters,
we spend years describing stones,
chairs, abandoned farm houses-
until we're ready. Always
it's a matter of precision,
what it feels like
to kiss someone or to walk
out the door. How good it was
to practice on stones
which were things we could love
without weeping over."

~Stephen Dunn, Essay on the Personal

Quote of the Week

"You can walk out of your life
if sadness properly instructs you"

~Stephen Dunn, A Good Life

Quote of the Week

Sorry I haven't done a quote in a long time. Did I mention that my computer is still busted? Anyways, I was given a lovely book of poetry just yesterday, and while I haven't had a chance to really delve into it yet, I did come across this passage:

"Then he took the wind in his fist
and let it out like a butterfly,
to show what power was.

When no one understood,
he let himself go
and they followed the simple flight into his mind. . ."

~Stephen Dunn, Teacher Answering Young Radicals