"Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies, That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife That with moist tears embraces her prone lord. Thou mist intensified; thou double dew That drowns the drought, that heals the parched and burnt -- Thou resurrection rain."

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Source : William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”

William Batchelder Greene

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“One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government.”
“Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God.”
“Just date people you like, then you're guaranteed to have fun.”
“I used to refer to my photos as free radicals - and maybe that has to do with this idea of navigating history. I think of the works as having this dormant illness that can really latch on to different histories. So they can exist in a world pretending to be neatly encapsulated, already framed, and fixed. But actually they are these parasites dependent on the failure of modernist history and on multiplicity.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.”
“God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.”
“Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.”

Source : "ASAP Rocky on gay rights: 'I treat everybody equal'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 26, 2013.
“Certain voices hold this odd pull on our heartstrings. They are like sad oboes or something, something that makes you want to throw all your money at the radio while yelling, "I love you." I don't know what it is.”

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