Bill Holm Quotes

#1. Above me, wind does its best
to blow leaves off
the aspen tree a month too soon.
No use wind. All you succeed
in doing is making music, the noise
of failure growing beautiful.

Bill Holm

#2. We're keeping our ears alert for any sudden thumps in undusted corners.

Bill Holm

#3. We take too much credit for our effect on the world, whining about our misery and guilt, what others have done or not done to us.

Bill Holm

#4. We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.

Bill Holm

#5. Don't whine about your poverty and brainless labor. You can read, can't you? Get thee to a library and foment rebellion - in both inner and outer worlds.

Bill Holm

#6. How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.

Bill Holm

#7. You must sit down to speak this language,
It is so heavy you can't be polite or chatter in it.
For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you"
-quoted in "The Geography of Bliss

Bill Holm

#8. It's odd to see pictures of your parents before your own birth, before your nagging presence altered their lives forever.

Bill Holm

#9. Children judge each other harshly, but don't make nice distinctions among the grown.

Bill Holm