"Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face."

-- James Russell Lowell

#Eye Quotes #Doors Quotes #House Quotes

“If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.”
“No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom.”
“There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.”
“I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.”
“Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.”
“We hould totally make out right now”
“In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of the human being, naked and facing the natural world, desperate to feel. I did not realize while reading Render how deeply I was handing everything over.”
“Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.”

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