"Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world."

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Source : "A Queer and Joyful Noise" by James Lecesne, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.

James Lecesne

#Growing Up Quotes #Catholic Quotes #Important Quotes

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.”
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
“Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.”
“I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there”
“I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.”
“Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.”
“Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others.”
“The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.”

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