As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. Votes: 6
You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you. Votes: 0
I couldn't unpeach the peaches. Votes: 0
What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color. Votes: 0
When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both. Votes: 0
We live in all we seek. Votes: 0
I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. Votes: 0
You can't test courage cautiously. Votes: 0
The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all. Votes: 0
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. Votes: 0
You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work. Votes: 0
We wake, if ever at all, to mystery. Votes: 0
What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding? Votes: 0
Write about winter in the summer. Votes: 0
Put yourself out of your misery. Votes: 0
Write as if you are dying. Votes: 0
The interior life is often stupid. Votes: 0
Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world. Votes: 0
For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town. Votes: 0
Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor. Votes: 0
If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. Votes: 0
Then why did you tell me? Votes: 0
We still and always want waking. Votes: 0
I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers. Votes: 0