“Just keep playing, mastering as you do the step Into disorder this one meant. Don't you see It's all we can do? Meanwhile, great fires Arise, as of haystacks aflame. The dial has been set And that's ominous, but all your graciousness in living Conspires with it, now that this is our home: A place to be from, and have people ask about.” PeopleHas BeensHomeAsksCan DoStepsFireAriseDisorderGraciousnessOminous Book:A Wave: Poems Source: A Wave: Poems
“I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside dying fires in one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved.” StillsBookSpiritHouseRoomsStepsHistoryFireWrittenGenerationsDyingSlaveryFollowingGrandparentPorchGreat Grandparents Book:Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics) Source: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)
“Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.” DoeEarthLastsDeathCausesFearWaterStepsFireAirMinesInstrumentsStructureFatigueLast Day Author:Michel de Montaigne
“It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar,and we can't beat it open. ...The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.” WorldMomentsMightHateForceStepsFireBeatsI HateRoundsFixedSparksThreadFutilityJarsCaterpillarsMasonsCharmedRimsProcessionVasesTinder Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK