"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes - The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Southern Sierra Nevadas, ~13,000 feet
08/24/06
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I love this quote and, not that I don't trust you, I actually googled it to see if it really WAS a quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. It is....which proves, I suppose, that your writing is approaching sacred heights :) Speaking of Ms. Browning, there's a great story about her asking her future husband, the poet Robert Browning, what he meant by a particular phrase in one of his poems. After a long pause, he replied, "When I wrote that Miss Barrett, only God and Robert Browning knew what it meant. Now only God knows."
ReplyDeleteI just like the part about plucking blackberries!
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