Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.


The Annie Dillard reader (ed. Harpercollins, 1994)


Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.

Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.

Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.

Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.