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Come with me into the field of sunflowers. Their faces are burnished disks, their dry spines creak like ship masts,
Needing one, I invented her— the great-great-aunt dark as hicko… called Shining-Leaf, or Drifting… or The-Beauty-of-the-Night. Dear aunt, I’d call into the leav…
Don’t bother me. I’ve just been born. The butterfly’s loping flight carries it through the country of…
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your kn… for a hundred miles through the de… You only have to let the soft anim… love what it loves.
The river Of my childhood, That tumbled Down a passage of rocks And cut-work ferns,
Is the soul solid, like iron? Or is it tender and breakable, lik… the wings of a moth in the beak of… Who has it, and who doesn’t? I keep looking around me.
Scatterghost, it can’t float away. And the rain, everybody’s brother, won’t help. And the wind all these… flying like ten crazy sisters ever…
Meditation is old and honorable, s… not sit, every morning of my life,… looking into the shining world? Be… attended to, delight, as well as h… Can one be passionate about the ju…
Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun,
When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the… to buy me, and snaps the purse shu… when death comes
When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the bramb… nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching
“For example, what the trees do not only in lightning storms or the watery dark of a summer’s n… or under the white nets of winter but now, and now, and now—whenever
The first fish I ever caught would not lie down quiet in the pail but flailed and sucked
Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime.