"Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs."

-- Thomas M. Disch

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“I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.”
“All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.”
“Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they canâ€™t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.”
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”
“I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.”
“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”
“The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.”
“Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.”

Source : Francine Rivers (2016). “The Francine Rivers Contemporary Collection: Leota's Garden / And the Shofar Blew”, p.669, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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