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Rumi advised me to keep my spirit up in the branches of a tree and not peek out too far, so I keep mine in the very tall willows along the irrigation ditch out back.
— Jim Harrison
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Rumi advised me to keep my spirit up in the branches of a tree and not peek out too far, so I keep mine in the very tall willows along the irrigation ditch out back.
— Jim Harrison
— Jim Harrison
“I used to tell students that the difference between poetry and you is you look in the mirror and say, “I am getting old,” but Shakespeare looks in the mirror and says, – “Devouring Time, blunt thou thy lion's paws.””
Suite to Fathers by Jim Harrison (1937–2016)
The face you look out of is never the face your lover looks into.
Jim Harrison
The question is, How can we personally counterattack the horror of the world around us without using excessive amounts of alcohol, drugs, and television watching, the latter being the curse the Indian chief Seattle put upon us? —Jim Harrison
No dream boats, grand sloops, ghostly galleons, if you please. As for me, and I'm doing the writing here, I have long confessed to being a tugboat: slow, rather stubby, persistent, functional, an estuarine creature that avoids open water.
— Jim Harrison, from "The Tugboats of Costa Rica" in "The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand (Grove/Atlantic. Inc, 2001) (via The Hammock Papers)
