John Haines Quotes
- To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things.
- I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct…
- The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they led…
- Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.
- I need to concede a considerable area to what I don't know and can't know, and perhaps don't wish to know. Only to understand in…