“You came one day andas usual in such matterssignificance filled everything-your eyes, the things youknew, the way you turned,leaned, stood, or sat,this way or that.”

“One can't have itboth ways and bothways is the onlyway I want it.”

“Plant the seed whose vine or tree may hang you.”

“Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through”

“Things go away to return, brightened for the passage”

“EquilibrationsIf you walk backand forththrough a puddle prettysoonyou wet the wholedriveway but ofcourse drythe puddle up.”

“It was May before myattention cameto spring andmy word I saidto the southern slopesI'vemissed it, itcame and went beforeI got right to see:don't worry, said the mountain,try the later northern slopesor ifyou can climb, climbinto spring: butsaid the mountainit's not that waywith all things, somethat go are gone”