What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.”
– Jeanette Winterson
After this week, I am definitely at the point of “I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me”. Years ago I realized that everything in this life comes at a price. I don’t see that as a negative, it just is what it is. The trick is in deciding just what we value and how much we’re willing to pay for it. Solitude, peace and tranquillity, relationships, freedom, friendship, career, and family. There’s a trade-off in them all. Is it ever possible to strike a balance?
September 26, 2014
I *love* Jeanette Wintersons writing.
September 27, 2014
Me too, Charlotte. This quote of hers is wonderful:
“I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me.
So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is.
It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
September 27, 2014
That’s one of my all-time favorite quotes!
September 27, 2014
I so love reading your blog. thank you for sharing your thoughts. I am not familiar with Jeanette Winterson but that quote is me, me, me.
September 27, 2014
Debbie, you are very welcome. Thank you for letting me know that you appreciate hearing my thoughts. You should look up Jeanette Winterson as the think you’d enjoy her work. I, too, really relate to that quote, except I’d put the ” I don’t want you to come too close” in all caps and about two feet tall. 😉