There’s not a stone or leaf or life that men won’t put a name to. It gives them a nice safe box to collect things in. They get in the habit of collecting things and end up surprised at the weight they’re carrying. A dream they thought might fit someday, something bright and sweet like a woman, picked up for her shine and somehow never left or at least never forgotten. Or an ambition! There’s a fine item in any man’s bag. A great, glowing ambition. They never fade, never wear even when you’ve outgrown them. Always there to look at and remember and play might-have-been.
Parke GodwinA while ago in real-time you saw the eagles. And you wished.
Parke GodwinYou go through it like a dark room, you sweat, you fear, the fear passes, you come out of it and utter nothing but meaningless words about what you saw or felt.
Parke GodwinBetween blow and pain, there is that instant of numbness, an unreal moment...
Parke GodwinLovers have a language that can be lost--how to speak, how to touch, when to try.
Parke GodwinI’ve learned and unlearned all my life; it’s helped me to survive. There are no constants, nothing is immutable, only random circumstance from which our experience builds a coherent arc of life. And for that arc you have only to be truly done with one thing before moving to another. There’s an art in letting go.
Parke GodwinTomorrow belongs to those who can learn. For those who can’t, there’s only yesterday.
Parke Godwin...for one instant, I saw the stars close enough to touch. Closer than that, part of me. Are they really so far or just that we never reach for them?
Parke GodwinThe day comes when love means something beyond a reflection of ourselves, when there is more behind than ahead and the house of mind is haunted in every chamber with old songs, old ghosts, old hopes.
Parke GodwinAnd youth, though they see every day the cradle and grave shaped so alike, never believe death will happen to them. I told you it was a comedy.
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