Quote by: Annie Dillard

The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock—more than a maple—universe.


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Author Bio


  • NameAnnie Dillard
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornApril 30, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Author; Novelist
  • WorksThe Maytrees
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Pulitzer Prize For General Non-Fiction