"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" Quotes

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and jumped.

I want to think about it, clearly and without words.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them.

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

It looks as if the world were covered in a cobbler's apron, as if the sky were a scrap of suede.

The water was clear and motionless, and so was I; and yet the light played with the water.

I know only enough of the world to have held, in my hands, a grain of purest gold.

Shadows are the edges of shadows.