John Daniel Quotes

At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.

We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.

. . .in your light, had I learned to love, here in your beauty, could I speakknowing of this space close withinas the breath held inside a garden rose, there— there is no time.

. . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their nameswritten across the sky as ogham threads are tracedbetween the stars

we lived depravityand called it truth, silencingour dreaming, andour love, discardingthings holy.