"It is important to act as if bearing witness matters."

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Source : Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”

Maxine Kumin

#Important Quotes #Matter Quotes #Bearing Witness Quotes

“I had body insecurities when I was younger. I still do.”

Source : "Ariel Winter on Her 'Body Insecurities': 'My Mother Wasn’t Supportive'". By Us Weekly Staff, www.usmagazine.com. March 8, 2013.
“If you offer them some sugarcane, even elephants can do this, sometimes on the first try.”
“The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.”
“Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.”
“I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is something that I cannot speak adequately to.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.”
“The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.”

Source : Sue Woodruff, Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1982). “Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg”, Bear & Co
“I box but I have never heard anyone say that I was a boring fighter or that they didn't really like watching my style.”

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