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The Branch Will Not Break QUOTES

The Branch Will Not Break QUOTES

1 " The Jewel

There is this cave
In the air behind my body
That nobody is going to touch:
A cloister, a silence
Closing around a blossom of fire.
When I stand upright in the wind,
My bones turn to dark emeralds. "

― James Wright , The Branch Will Not Break

2 " In a pine tree,
A few yards away from my window sill,
A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and down,
On a branch.
I laugh, as I see him abandon himself
To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do
That the branch will not break. "

― James Wright , The Branch Will Not Break

3 " Look: I am nothing.
I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes. "

― James Wright , The Branch Will Not Break