"How many years have slipped through our hands?……" — Charles Wright
"How many years have slipped through our hands?
At least as many as the constellations we still can identify.
The quarter moon, like a light skiff,
floats out of the mist-remnants
Of last night’s hard rain.
It, too, will slip through our fingers
with no ripple, without us in it."
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Charles Wright
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14 Quotes by Charles Wright
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It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the…
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How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?
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The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.
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All forms of landscape are autobiographical,
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If you want great tranquility/ It's hard work and a long walk
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The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.
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Poetry is the dark side of the moon,
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November’s a burn and an ache.
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It’s up there, and you can see the front of it. But what it is isn’t what you’re looking at.…
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Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.
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We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind…
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It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat…
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