Word: measureless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STILL AS OLSEN goes on to point out, writing requires much more than just this "homely underpinning." A "conviction as to the importance of what one has to say, one's right to say it. And the will, the measureless store of belief in oneself to be able to come to cleave to, find the form for one's own life comprehensions" is also essential. To have that kind of confidence, a writer needs to be taken seriously and appreciated. Here Olsen is at her best. She painstakingly identifies the societal attitudes and practices that leech away a person...
Families are a funny breed. They draw, spill, suck and drink the blood they share. They seem to survive everything with dumb granitic tenacity. What they give to each other is measureless, like divine grace; what they take is inexorable, like mortal fate...
...from the blue would emerge the invisible colors changing so patiently that one could as well walk from sun to shadow in the same ignorance of perfect vision to descend, however, from wings to the land beyond the blue plain begin, continuing to the great mountains in measureless distance, great dunes of sand, they are vulnerable, massive changing with the clouds, their gravity, constant in change, they are not gold, nor golden color borne of texture below the surface, the refraction of a beauty need never be know, precious elements of transcendent spectra blinding, forever blind, locked within other earths...