“The information age has taken away the most useful function of the aged, children no longer connect with them for wisdom.
What for then, the longer life?
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“I guess that's how people go on, without
knowing how.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“and my job is to eat the whole car
of my anger, part by part, some parts
ground down to steel-dust.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“So much had become so connected to him
that it seemed to belong to him, so that now,
flying, for hours, above the Atlantic
still felt like being over his realm.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“seeking how to accept him as
he was, under the law that he could not
speak—and when I shrieked against the law
he shrinked down into its absolute,
he rose from its departure gate.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“In his gaze,
rooms of the dead; halls of loss; fog-
emerald; driven, dirty-rice snow:
he was in there somewhere, I looked for him,
and he gave me the gift, he let me in,
knowing he would never once, in this world or in
any other, have to do it again,
and I saw him, not as he really was, I was
still without the strength of anger, but I
saw him see me, even now
that dropping down into trust's affection
in his gaze, and I held it, some seconds, quiet,
and I said, Good-bye, and he said Good-bye”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“and not to have lost him when he loved me, and not to have
lost someone who could have loved me for life.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“I feel like his victim,
and he seems my victim”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“God has given me a lifeboat and said... 'Moody save all you can”
“Sometimes
I don't see exactly how to go on doing this.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems