Best Annie Dillard Proverbs
- There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning,… Allows
- There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the… Ample
- The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book… Adjust
- Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. Abundantly
- A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day… Afraid
- Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and… Abundantly
- I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. Beam
- The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of items, an I… Behind
- There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip,… Events
- I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the… Arching
- Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can. Connections
- We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence... All
- Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf.… Band
- The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee;… All
- These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present. Few
- He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars. Flung
- Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it… Air
- The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do… Answer
- I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my… Aging
- One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time.… All
- After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down… Aeons
- I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep… Beam
- Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is… Each
- It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know… All
- I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge.… Afraid
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