The traffic between storytelling and metaphysics is continuous.

— John Berger



Fierce Mind

Speaking of a monastery where monks petitioned to live a harder way, in pits dug in the earth farther up the mountain, the poet writes:

The mind and its fierceness lives here in silence. 

- from the poem "On Stone" by Jack Gilbert

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