Michael Penn famous quotes

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Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.
Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.
First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.
Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.
Women move through the world never knowing their power.
Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.
The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.
I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It's as if my new life was the gift I got at the end of a long struggle.
In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.

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