James K. Baxter famous quotes
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The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.
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But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.
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The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It is a crisis of powerlessness in which our sole recourse is to call on the help and inward power of the Holy Spirit.
-- James K. Baxter
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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A poem round and perfect as a star.
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But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.
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It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.
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Ghana is like a lion without a head
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The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.
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Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]
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The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.
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We're living in a den of thieves
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The world is a den of crazies.
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