I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now, I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate. Kathy Acker
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It is said that pirates stole from the rich and gave to the poor, but they also wrote the highest quality literature, presented a sophisticated form of art, and were some of the greatest explorers in history. They lived a life of adventure and exploration and they were all about living for the moment. They had a deep love for nature and found peace in being alive. Any regrets they had were only to the past, not to the future.

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