June 2012
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“The world is greater than its words.
To speak of it the mind must bend.”
– Wendell Berry, from Window Poems
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“Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home...”
– Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
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“It has seemed to me sometimes as though the Lord breathes on this poor gray...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
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“Love is holy because it is like grace—the worthiness of its object is...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
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“There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
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“I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
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“Poetry is a weapon, and should be used,
though not in the crudity of violence....”
– John Montague, from “Silences” (via Poetry Verve)
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“I exist only when I am writing. I am nothing when I am not writing. I am fully a...”
– Ingeborg Bachmann in her acceptance speech for the Anton-Wildgans-Preis received in 1972. (thank you, rimeswriting)
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“When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate,...”
– Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
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“If I’m a bitch and a fake, is there nobody who will love a bitch and a...”
– Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
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“What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is...”
– Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
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“I kiss you and the world begins to fade.”
– W. B. Yeats, The Land of Heart’s Desire
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“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the...”
– Henry David Thoreau, The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals 