"I will garden on the double run, my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes, and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind and work until my heart is short, then go out slowly with a feeble grin, my fingers flexing but my eyes gone gray from cramps and the lack of oxygen."

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Source : Richard Hugo, Ripley S. Hugo (1992). “The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

Richard Hugo

#Death Quotes #Running Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are wasted on people who will not make the effort to be harsher or stricter on their own gooey egos than they are on other people.”
“The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.”
“I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.”

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“Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.”
“For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.”
“As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.”
“I am very proud of my nerd-dom.”
“It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.”

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