We make too much history.
With or without us
there will be the silence
and the rocks and the far shining.
But what we need to be
is, oh, the small talk of swallows
in evening over
dull waters under willows.
To be we need to know the river
holds the salmon and the ocean
holds the whales as lightly
as the body holds the soul
in the present tense, in the present tense.
--Ursula K. Le Guin
"What is happening in the world is terrible and irreversible, and that history is probably a doomed enterprise. But in the meantime it is important to live in the world as completely as we can."
--W. S. Merwin (in 1986)
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