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Goldenrod: Poems QUOTES

Goldenrod: Poems QUOTES

1 " I’ve talked so much about loving the world without any idea how to do it. "

― Maggie Smith , Goldenrod: Poems

2 " We say in the grand scheme of things as if there were one. We say that's not how the world works as if the world works. "

― Maggie Smith , Goldenrod: Poems

3 " My handwriting is all over these woods.
No, my handwriting is these woods,
each tree a half-print, half-cursive scrawl,
each loop a limb. My house is somewhere
here, & I have scribbled myself inside it.

What is home but a book we write, then
read again & again, each time dog-earing
different pages... "

― Maggie Smith , Goldenrod: Poems

4 " I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future. "

― Maggie Smith , Goldenrod: Poems

5 " The body remains a house unaware of its rooms. "

― Maggie Smith , Goldenrod: Poems

6 " That bit of blue doesn't belong to them, and they don't belong to the sky, or to the earth, or to us. Isn't that what you've been taught — nothing is ours? Haven't you learned to keep the loosest possible hold? "

― Maggie Smith , Goldenrod: Poems

7 " What is home but a book we write, then
read again & again, each time dog-earing

different pages. "

― Maggie Smith , Goldenrod: Poems

8 " When I think likeness, I think tears — blue always for water, blue running through and under everything. "

― Maggie Smith , Goldenrod: Poems

9 " We say ‘in the grand scheme of things’ as if there were one. We say ‘that’s not how the world works’ as if the world works. "

― Maggie Smith , Goldenrod: Poems