Will Miller
Will Miller
Will Milleris an American rower. He is a five time US National Team Member and competed in the Men's eight event at the 2012 Summer Olympics placing 4th. He grew up in Duxbury, MA and received his undergraduate degree from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. He currently resides in San Francisco, CA. His father, Bill Miller, was also a US Olympic rower...
lasts speak poet
If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.
retarded bits
I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.
passing-away shadow earth
One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an anomaly of nature, a being without shadow; you will never die again but only pass away like the phenomena about you.
departed alive world
As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie. The dawn is breaking on a new world, a jungle world in which lean spirits roam with sharp claws. If a am a hyena I am a lean and hungry one: I go forth to fatten myself.
falling-in-love selfish thinking
I’m an egotist, but I’m not selfish. There’s a difference. I’m a neurotic, I guess. I can’t stop thinking about myself. It isn’t that I think myself so important... I simply can’t think about anything else, that’s all. If I could fall in love with a woman that might help some. But I can’t find a woman who interests me.
voyages accomplished
Voyages are accomplished inwardly.
yesterday flags half
Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.
ocean cutting sea
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
reason-why reason stifling
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
short-life long want
Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.
sublime alleys dear-life
You start with the sublime and end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.
travel spring paris
When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.
life-lesson men world
The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.
time cancer eating
The cancer of time is eating us away