we were talking about getting things and i said no, no i don't need the fish mug, the picture is enough. and most ideas are better to think than to have. then i thought of the hoard of sorrow back home, i think of kahlil gibran, my house says to me, do not leave me, for here dwells your past. i think that's the trouble. the past needs no house. it needs space i guess. 
i got 12 books of poems in the free box yesterday, but i regard them like passages, that are migrating through my hands.

oops, i forgot, this was supposed to have another quote, from one of those free books, living in the world as if it were home, by tim lilburn.


the conviction which had come to me was
that when one hungers for bread, one does not receive
stones.... just as i was certain that desire
has in itself an efficacy in the realm of spiritual goodness,
whatever its form, i thought it was also possible
that it might not be effective in any other realm.

                                                                           simone weil