Kathleen Norris (poet) Quote

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.


Dakota: A Spiritual Geography (1993)


To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.