John Haines Quotes

• I need to concede a considerable area to what I don't know and can't know, and perhaps don't wish to know. Only to understand in a way I do not quite understand.

  John Haines

  Wish, Needs, Way

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• Los viajes independientes hacen eso, reunir temporalmente a estos barcos errantes que de otro modo pasarían de noche. La mayoría de las veces, las relaciones eran breves y, a veces, francamente fugaces. Las barreras y las máscaras de la existencia sedentaria se desvanecían y permitían que unos desconocidos se convirtieran en amigos, aunque sólo fuera por un día. Los viajeros lo necesitábamos, tras habernos alejado deliberadamente de la red de seguridad social de la familia, la escuela, el trabajo y la comunidad.

  John Haines

  School, Independent, Night

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• I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct and searching. To take the trail and not look back..Let the rest of mankind find me if it could.

  John Haines

  Forever, Desire, Looks

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• To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things.

  John Haines

  Heart, Rivers, Water

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• The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they led inward also. And from the study of things underfoot, and from reading and thinking, came a kind of exploration, myself and the land. In time the two became one in my mind. With the gathering force of an essential thing realizing itself out of early ground, I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--- to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct and searching.

  John Haines

  Country, Reading, Thinking

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• Coles, cuyas cabezas, fuertemente dobladas no ven ni oyen nada de este mundo, soñando sólo con la magnificencia amarilla y verde que se endurece en su interior.

  John Haines

  Dream, Food, Yellow

  John Haines (1996). “The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems”

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