I look for uncomplicated hymns, but love has none.
-Anne Sexton
(fun fact: the name of my senior thesis in college was An Uncomplicated Hymn)
quotations and poetry
wondrous woven magic
My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue
An everlasting vision of the ever-changing view
A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold
A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold.
An everlasting vision of the ever-changing view
A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold
A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold.
-Carole King, Tapestry
if there was a soul this must be it
…if there was a soul this must be it, some central eternal part of you in love with the world.
-Andre Dubus III, Gone So Long
to make something with the little we have
“What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?”
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an ignorant pilgrim
Often I have not known where I was going until I was already there. I have had my share of desires and goals, but my life has come to me or I have gone to it mainly by way of mistakes and surprises. Often I have received better than I have deserved. Often my fairest hopes have rested on bad mistakes. I am an ignorant pilgrim, crossing a dark valley. And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led – make of that what you will.
~ Wendell Berry
Another passage I found on the surpassingly lovely First Sip.