“The Same Story,” p. 63
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”
“Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain
Somewhere in ear-shot for the story’s end.”
Responsibilities - Introduction http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1572/
Responsibilities (1914)
A River Runs Through It (1976)
Context: Everything that was to happen had happened and everything that was to be seen had gone. It was now one of those moments when nothing remains but an opening in the sky and a story — and maybe something of a poem. Anyway, as you possibly remember, there are these lines in front of the story:
“You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.”
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
“Three stories high, long, dull, and old,
As great lords' stories often are.”
The Maid of the Moor, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
