Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 21-29, p. 139
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book XI, p. 427
Source: Message in a Bottle
“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all.”
Source: The Dharma Bums (1958)
Context: I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling. Ecstacy, even, I felt, with flashes of sudden remembrance, and feeling sweaty and drowsy I felt like sleeping and dreaming in the grass.
