All my life I have lived and behaved very much like [the] sandpiper--just running down the edges of different countries and contin...ents, "looking for something" ... having spent most of my life timorously seeking for subsistence along the coastlines of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free,... drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same, slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones,... icily free above the stones, above the stones and then the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Somebody arranges the rows of cans... so that they softly say: esso--so--so--so to high-strung automobiles. Somebody loves us all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, but it is dirty! Mthis little filling station,... oil-soaked, oil-permeated to a disturbing, over-all black translucency. Be careful with that match!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »