For two decades, I’ve maintained a list of quotes I like by poets, writers, and thinkers I find interesting. This post is part of that series. All posts in the series are organized alphabetically. Some poets and writers have their own dedicated pages.

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If you can’t delight in the everyday, / you have no future here. / And if you can, no future either. — from “Future Tense”

If you don’t shine you are darkness. / The future is merciless — from “Tomorrow”

There comes a time in one’s life when one wants time, / a lot of time, with inanimate things. — from “Cowboy Up”

We live on Orphan Mountain, / each of us, and that’s how it is — from “The Waters of Babylon”

We won’t meet again. So what? / The rust will remain in the trees, / and pine needles stretch their necks, / Their tiny necks, and sunlight will snore in the limp grass. — “This World Is Not My Home, I’m Only Passing Through”