“I raise above the altar bread and wine. Humbled, since my reason does not comprehend what I do.”— Czeslaw Milosz, amazon.com
“Forces are manifested in poems that do not pass through the circuits of knowledge.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.com
“Last summer we put up our second cutting of alfalfa on an extremely hot, humid afternoon. There was no breeze at all. The hot, bright, moist air seemed to wrap around us and stick to us while we loaded the wagons. It was worse in the barn, where the tin roof raised the temperature and held the air e…”— Wendell Berry, amazon.com