8 Quotes by Brian Patten

How long is a man’s life, finally? Is it a thousand days, or only one? One week, or a few centuries? How long does a man’s death last? And what do we mean when we say, ‘gone forever’?

A man lives for as long as we carry him inside us.

When being lost seems So much more like being found, And you find all that is lost Is what weighed you down.

The Giant rested back in his chair. “You’ve some stories left,” he said. ” I can smell them on your skin.

Isolation disfigures men Who think their separateness superior.

So many partings in the mind the heart Has not had the courage to follow through.

I reach into you to reach all mankind, And the deeper into you I reach The deeper glows elsewhere the world And sings of you. It says, To love is the one common miracle.

Sleep now, Alone in the sleeves of grief, Listening to clothes falling And your flesh touching God;.