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Appalachia: Poems QUOTES

1 " Ars Poetica II"

I find, after all these years, I am a believer—
I believe what the thunder and lightning have to say;
I believe that dreams are real,
and that death has two reprisals;
I believe that dead leaves and black water fill my heart.

I shall die like a cloud, beautiful, white, full of nothingness.

The night sky is an ideogram,
a code card punched with holes.
It thinks it’s the word of what’s-to-come.
It thinks this, but it’s only The Library of Last Resort,
The reflected light of The Great Misunderstanding.

God is the fire my feet are held to. "

― Charles Wright , Appalachia: Poems

2 " We disappear as stars do, soundless, without a trace. "

― Charles Wright , Appalachia: Poems