"Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander."

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Source : Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.53, Penguin

Christopher Cokinos

#Wilderness Quotes #Wander Quotes

“To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.”
“You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.”
“If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.”
“Life You have been good to me.... You have not made yourself too dear to juggle with.”

Source : Lola Ridge (1920). “Sun-up, and Other Poems”
“it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.”
“The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.”

Source : Hillary Jordan (2008). “Mudbound”, p.14, Random House
“As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”
“The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.”

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