3 Quotes by John Haines

To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things.

I need to concede a considerable area to what I don’t know and can’t know, and perhaps don’t wish to know. Only to understand in a way I do not quite understand.

Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.