“This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.”
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American poet 1967Related quotes
“But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.”
“A death was more than an ending; it was like pulling a thread from a richly patterned cloth.”
First measure “The Lady Margaret” (p. 17)
Pavane (1968)
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Context: Hard to the heart is final death: fain would an Ens not end in Nil;
Love made the senti'ment kindly good: the Priest perverted all to ill.
While Reason sternly bids us die, Love longs for life beyond the grave:
Our hearts, affections, hopes and fears for Life-to-be shall ever crave.
Hence came the despot's darling dream, a Church to rule and sway the State;
Hence sprang the train of countless griefs in priestly sway and rule innate.
For future Life who dares reply? No witness at the bar have we;
Save what the brother Potsherd tells, — old tales and novel jugglery.
Who e'er return'd to teach the Truth, the things of Heaven and Hell to limn?
And all we hear is only fit for grandam-talk and nursery-hymn.
“I wish to go on living even after my death.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“A hard beginning makes a good ending.”
Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)