How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
From Annie Dillard
If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.
When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.
'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.
A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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