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

- John Haines

The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they led inward also. And …

- John Haines

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…

- John Haines

Independent travel does that, bringing temporarily together these wandering ships that would otherwise pass in the night. Relationships were mostly b…

- John Haines

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

- John Haines

I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct …

- John Haines