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Annie Dillard Quotes

Poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion Picture Quote #1

Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle Picture Quote #1

Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left Picture Quote #1

Whenever an encounter between a writer of good will and a regular person of good will happens to touch on the subject of writing, each person discovers, dismayed, that good will is of no earthly use. The conversation cannot proceed Picture Quote #1

Ecstasy, I think, is a soul’s response to the waves holiness makes as it nears Picture Quote #1

I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail Picture Quote #1

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No one can help you if you’re stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work’s possibilities Picture Quote #1

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again Picture Quote #1

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again Picture Quote #1

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents Picture Quote #1

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by Picture Quote #1

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair Picture Quote #1

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There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times Picture Quote #1

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out Picture Quote #1

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe Picture Quote #1

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf Picture Quote #1

We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall Picture Quote #1

I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from airplanes the people are crying thank you, thank you, all down the air; and the cold carriages draw up for them on the rocks Picture Quote #1

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Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block Picture Quote #1

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less Picture Quote #1

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed Picture Quote #1

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone Picture Quote #1

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind Picture Quote #1

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins Picture Quote #1

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A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all Picture Quote #1

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it Picture Quote #1

I can’t dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can’t do anything anymore Picture Quote #1

If you’re going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself Picture Quote #1

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death Picture Quote #1

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone Picture Quote #1

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Poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion (Annie Dillard Quotes) Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle (Annie Dillard Quotes) Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left (Annie Dillard Quotes) Whenever an encounter between a writer of good will and a regular person of good will happens to touch on the subject of writing, each person discovers, dismayed, that good will is of no earthly use. The conversation cannot proceed (Annie Dillard Quotes) Ecstasy, I think, is a soul’s response to the waves holiness makes as it nears (Annie Dillard Quotes) I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail (Annie Dillard Quotes) No one can help you if you’re stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work’s possibilities (Annie Dillard Quotes) I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again (Annie Dillard Quotes) I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again (Annie Dillard Quotes) The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents (Annie Dillard Quotes) There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by (Annie Dillard Quotes) Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair (Annie Dillard Quotes) There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times (Annie Dillard Quotes) The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out (Annie Dillard Quotes) Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe (Annie Dillard Quotes) Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf (Annie Dillard Quotes) We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall (Annie Dillard Quotes) I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from airplanes the people are crying thank you, thank you, all down the air; and the cold carriages draw up for them on the rocks (Annie Dillard Quotes) Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block (Annie Dillard Quotes) The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less (Annie Dillard Quotes) It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed (Annie Dillard Quotes) Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone (Annie Dillard Quotes) I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind (Annie Dillard Quotes) You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins (Annie Dillard Quotes) A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all (Annie Dillard Quotes) At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it (Annie Dillard Quotes) I can’t dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can’t do anything anymore (Annie Dillard Quotes) If you’re going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself (Annie Dillard Quotes) Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death (Annie Dillard Quotes) Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone (Annie Dillard Quotes)

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