“When I expect myself to be superhuman, I become anxious and depressed; when I expect you to be, I become hostile; when I expect the world to be superperfect, I become self-pitying and rebelliously inert. If I am truly human, and expect nothing but humanness...
“After that life in the singing dream, I woke, and feared he felt he was the human sleeper, and I the glittering panther holding him down, and screaming.” —Sharon Olds, “Not Quiet Enough”, from the book Stag’s Leap, c. 2012 I bought...
“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world . . . Nothing was hard, and everything...
