"Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first."

-- Jane Hirshfield

#Morning Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.”
“For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?”
“Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.”
“Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.”
“Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.”
“It's nice to be in a place where I can be a little more selective, and to be sought out for ideas that I have.”
“Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.”
“The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life.”

Source : Rubén Darío (2010). “Selected Poems of Rubén Darío”, p.90, University of Texas Press

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