Will Harrison
Will Harrison
stories truth-is poet
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
simple hard-times names
Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times)
dog freedom chains
I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.
loneliness passion being-alone
I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.
men doors oneness
We Are All One. When we allow ourselves to become aware of this statement in its purest form, we open the doors to reveal the oneness of being. Using the process of conscious evolution we begin to recognise our true underlying identity, for once we have glimpsed the existence of this realm, we then begin to reveal what it is . . . . our true natural state.
tomorrow knows
I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
dream people vision
Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.
fishing horror hostage
Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
soul language speak
Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
stories stealing
Death steals everything except our stories.
disappointment giving risk
I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.
stars effort together
I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.
inspirational travel doe
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.
rivers
In a life properly lived, you’re a river,