“The warmth of one’s body is a form of communication. …I have a tendency when I’m walking in the garden to brush the flowers as I go by. …I strongly identify with Henry James when he wrote, in answer to a letter asking him what compelled him to write, ‘The port from which I set out was, I think, that of the essential loneliness of my life.’ One of the great satisfactions of the human spirit is to feel that one’s feeling extends… to everything that lives. I feel I’m not only sharing the planet, but also sharing my life.”
–Stanley Kunitz, The Wild Braid
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for a split second today
i was
the world’s smartest human.
i was
everywhere,
in a perfect world.
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February 7, 2009 at 10:47 am
cindy
I see that you’re reading Stanley Kunitz, which makes me think you looked more into Genine’s writing/past. Genine always had these amazing stories about him.
I am so impressed by your photos. I don’t know what else to say about that. where does your job take you?