"When Keats was in Rome, he saw pomegranate trees overhead; they bloomed in dirt blown onto the Colosseum’s broken walls. How can we doubt our own time, in which each bright instant probes the future? We live and move splitting the light of the present, as a canoe’s bow parts water."
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Annie Dillard
For the Time Being
pg. 186
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