On Moving Away
Member Curated (March, 2022)
On moving away:
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"It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.
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"Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.
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"Yet I cannot tarry longer.
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"The sea that calls all things unto her calls me, and I must embark.
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"For to stay, though the hours burn in the night, is to freeze and crystallize and be bound in a mould.
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"Fain would I take with me all that is here. But how shall I?
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"A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether.
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"And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun." — Kahlil Gibran; The Prophet, p. 4-5
Evan M. Cohen
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