“I want there to be woodcock forever flying over in October, and solitude, and Hunter’s Moons. But most, I want there always to be Grouse- of all wild things, the wildest- in these endless mountains we call home.”
The Upland Shooting Life (1971)
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Source: Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth
Part of Me
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“I wanted my wild things to be frightening.”
As quoted in The Art of Maurice Sendak by Selma G. Lanes (1980)
Context: I wanted my wild things to be frightening. But why? It was probably at this point that I remembered how I detested my Brooklyn relatives as a small child. They came almost every Sunday, and there was my week-long anxiety about their coming the next Sunday... They'd lean way over with their bad teeth and hairy noses, and say something threatening like "You're so cute I could eat you up." And I knew if my mother didn't hurry up with the cooking, they probably would.
“The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.”
Source: On the Road
“I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.”
“I do not want to be a fly,
I want to be a worm!”
A Conservative.
In this Our World : Poems (1898)
“You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly"
-Baby Carlyle”
Source: You Just Can't Get Enough
“I wanted to be an actor. I never wanted to grow up. I never wanted to. I wanted to fly.”
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