Linda Pastan Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: b. May 27, 1932
Birthday: May 27
Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and I make my choice in a mood of exalted luck, browsing among them like a cow in sweetest pasture. For life is continuous as long as they wait to be read--these inked paths opening into the future, page after page, every book its own receding horizon. And I hold them, one in each hand, a curious ballast weighing me here to earth.
topic: Book, Hands, Broken, Weighing, Ballast, Browsing
