Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness
(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV).

raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness
(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV).

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once

Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once

Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.

Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full read more

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent