"Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly."

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Source : Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy (2002). “Collected Works”, p.242, Univ of California Press

Lorine Niedecker

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“The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.”
“I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.”
“Iâ€™ll never retire as long as I liveâ€”thatâ€™s like retiring from life! Iâ€™ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If youâ€™re in good health, living is exciting on its own.”
“You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.”
“I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.”

Source : "Mohamed Morsi, in UN speech, calls for action on Syria, Palestinian cause " by Priyanka Boghani, www.pri.org. September 26, 2012.
“First we draw what we see; then we draw what we know; finally we see what we know.”
“No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.”
“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.”

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