--22-23. Ennystimon, County Clare, Ireland. John
O'Donohue Symposium. Public talks
and conversations. I feel honored
to receive the first John
O'Donohue Poetics of Possibility Award.
DIANE ON THE
SELF
“Who would deduce the dragonfly from the
larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are
all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural
noun, a caravan of selves.”
DIANE ON LIFE
"The great affair, the love affair with
life, is to live as variously as possible,to groom one's
curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and
gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day....It began in
mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and
beautiful country lies in between."
DIANE ON NATURE
"There is a way of beholding nature which is
a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and
aliveness that the rest of the world recedes."
DIANE ON WONDER
“Wonder is the heaviest element on the
periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops
time.”
