"Every vivid memory holds some essential truth about your vision of the world"

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Source : Kim Stafford (2012). “The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft”, p.72, University of Georgia Press

Kim Stafford

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“Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz.”
“The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.”
“The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.”
“Just then, down through the last glimmer of twilight, stepping high and free, like a cloud, a moth, a ghost in the shape of a horse â€” came the Silver Stallion. Wild, beautiful, and free as the wind he came, from one kingdom to another, Thowra”
“That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it... accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price... he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway.”
“New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.”
“I have two secret weapons -- my legs, my arms and my brain.”
“The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.”

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