Write about winter in the summer.
ANNIE DILLARDI wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
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One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time…give it, give it all, give it now.
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You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
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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.
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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