Robert Hunter citations

“Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through… the transitive nightfall of diamonds”

“But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart”

“The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master”

“There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you'd gladly part, With what you need to live”

“Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.”

“Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair”

“I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.”

“In the secret space of dreams, Where I dreaming lay amazed, When the secrets all are told, And the petals all unfold. When there was no dream of mine, You dreamed of me”

“Once in a while, you get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.”

“I like your smile but I ain't your type, Don't shake the tree when the fruit ain't ripe”

“Trouble ahead, Trouble behind, and you know that notion just crossed my mind”

“Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door.”

“When I was just a little young boy, Papa said "Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go."”

“Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done”

“Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be here.”

“Sometimes we live no particular way but our own”

“There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night. And if you go, no one may follow. That path is for your steps alone.”

“Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.”

“You who choose to lead must follow, But if you fall, you fall alone, If you should stand then who's to guide you? If I knew the way I would take you home”

“Ain't nobody messin' with you but you”

“Lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll.”

“Oh no well I / been there before / and I ain't a comin back around / there no more / no I'm not”

“While you were gone, these spaces filled with darkness. The obvious was hidden. With nothing to believe in. The compass always points to Terrapin.”

“Sometimes the light's all shining on me, Other times I can barely see, Lately it occurs to me, What a long strange trip it's been…”

“Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait”

“Nothing's for certain, It could always go wrong, Come in when it's raining, Go on out when it's gone, We could have us a high time, Living the good life, Well I know”

“It seems like all this life was just a dream”

“Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, but the heart has its beaches, its homeland, and thoughts of its own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings, but the heart has its seasons its evenings, and songs of its own”

“In another time's forgotten space, your eyes looked through your mother's face, Wildflower seed on the sand and stone, may the four winds blow you safely home. Roll away … the dew”