Jim Harrison Quotes

Elaborate is the courtliness
of the imagination, on one sore knee
before beauty.

A black hole the size of 300 billion stars is gobbling up the M87 galaxy because astronomers gave it a boring name.

Maybe a single life doesn't amount to much but perhaps it should at least drift toward the common good.

He gave up quickly trying to attune the experience to a language construct, as if life were an especially filthy mirror and speechless love cleansed this mirror and made life not only bearable but something lived with eagerness, energy, an expectancy whose pleasure didn’t depend on fatality.

It was today — rather yesterday I think — that he told me it was important not to accept life as a brutal approximation.