“We carry the lives we’ve imagined as we carry the lives we have, and sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost.”
Helen MacDonald, H is for Hawk.
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remember that words, the right & true words have the power of deeds. Raymond Carver
“We carry the lives we’ve imagined as we carry the lives we have, and sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost.”
Helen MacDonald, H is for Hawk.
“Epilogue
Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme–
why are they no help to me now
I want to make
something imagined, not recalled?
I hear the noise of my own voice:
The painter’s vision is not a lens,
it trembles to caress the light.
But sometimes everything I write
with the threadbare art of my eye
seems a snapshot,
lurid, rapid, garish, grouped,
heightened from life,
yet paralyzed by fact.
All’s misalliance.
Yet why not say what happened?
Pray for the grace of accuracy
Vermeer gave to the sun’s illumination
stealing like the tide across a map
to his girl solid with yearning.
We are poor passing facts,
warned by that to give
each figure in the photograph
his living name.”
― Robert Lowell, Day by Day
remember that words, the right & true words have the power of deeds. Raymond Carver
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remember that words, the right & true words have the power of deeds. Raymond Carver
remember that words, the right & true words have the power of deeds. Raymond Carver
remember that words, the right & true words have the power of deeds. Raymond Carver
remember that words, the right & true words have the power of deeds. Raymond Carver
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remember that words, the right & true words have the power of deeds. Raymond Carver