Lisel Mueller

Quotes

• “The Blind Leading the BlindTake my hand. There are two of us in this cave.The sound you hear is water; you will hear it forever....You will learn toads from diamonds, the fist from the palm,love from the sweat of love, falling from flying....Once I fell off a precipice. Once I found gold....There are two of us here. Touch me.”
• “In the Thriving SeasonIn memory of my mother.Now she catches fistfuls of sun...My first child in her first springstretches bare hands back to your darknessand heals your silence...”
• “Bach Transcribing VivaldiOne remembered the sunrise, how clearly it gavesubstance and praise to the mountains...the other imagined twilight, the setting in blood,and a valley of fallen leaves where a stranger might rest.”
• “A Grackle ObservedWatching the black gracklecome out...into the sun, I am dazzledby an unsuspected sheen,yellow, purple and green,...until he, unawareof what he means...hops back...and leaves the shining part...behind, as thoughbrightness must outgrowits... worldly dressand enter the mind...as vision... pure light.”
• “"O Brave New World,That Hath Such People In It"Soon you will be like her, 's daughter,finding the door that leads out of yourself...where you live with the gracious and light-footed   creaturesthat thrive in the glaze of your art and freedom....Soon you will...banish yourself from the one flawless place.”
• “A Holy MadnessTo say thou to the sunand call the wind brother;to be humble before a grain of sandand speak familiarly to the sea;to preach to the birds in earnest...o holy love, sweet lunacy,which of us, seeing a childexhorting a deaf robin,does not bless that childfor the paradise in his head?Be praised, my Lord, for Francis,brother to lilies...”

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