“My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.” FactsFallLiteratureWifeRocksHabitMereMy WifeCompareDroppingGoatsBeastly Book:The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set it. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.” FallLiteratureTreeReadyDramaCorruptionLandscapeClassicInstantApplesEdenSerpentGleamAmerican LiteratureAmerican Landscape Book:For Love and Money: A Writing Life Source: For Love and Money: A Writing Life
“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.” PeopleFallLiteratureVoiceCrazyLive ByLegendsInner VoiceClearnessDifferent Voices Author:Jim Harrison