Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
It was enough just to sit there without words.
In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world.
You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
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Published Sources for Quotations Above:
F:
In "A World of Ideas," by Bill Moyers, 1989.
R:
In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
A:
Where I Ought to Be" NY "Times," 28 Jul 85
N:
Love Medicine," 1984.
K:
In "Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," by John Bartlett, 1937, 1980, 1992.
