Annie Dillard Quotes

What I Call Innocence Is The Spirit's Unself-conscious State At Any Moment Of Pure Devotion To Any Object. It Is At Once A Receptiveness And Total Concentration. One Needn't Be, Shouldn't Be, Reduced To A Puppy. If You Wish To Tell Me That The City Offers Galleries, I'll Pour You A Drink And Enjoy Your Company While It Lasts; But I'll Bear With Me To My Grave Those Pure Moments At The Tate (was It The Tate?) Where I Stood Planted, Open-mouthed, Born, Before That One Particular Canvas, That River Up To My Neck, Gasping, Lost, Receding Into Watercolor Depth And Depth To The Vanishing Point, Buoyant, Awed, And Had To Be Literally Hauled Away. These Are Our Few Live Seasons. Let Us Live Them As Purely As We Can, In The Present.

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