What we want is never simple. Linda Pastan More Quotes by Linda Pastan More Quotes From Linda Pastan Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut. Linda Pastan eyebrokenway I made a list of things I have Linda Pastan listswantremember There are poems Linda Pastan bluecloudsmoving What we want Linda Pastan starsdreammorning Evil is simply Linda Pastan empathyerrorsevil I regret the way pain has taught me nothing. Linda Pastan regretpainway I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"] Linda Pastan bedwould-beabsence I am tired of the litany Linda Pastan tiredrealflesh Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and I make my choice in a mood of exalted luck, browsing among them like a cow in sweetest pasture. For life is continuous as long as they wait to be read--these inked paths opening into the future, page after page, every book its own receding horizon. And I hold them, one in each hand, a curious ballast weighing me here to earth. Linda Pastan longbookhands Grief is a circular staircase. Linda Pastan staircasesgrief Spring is the shortest season. Linda Pastan seasonsspring
