"In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break."

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Source : James Wright (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.125, Wesleyan University Press

James Wright

#Blue Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Tree Quotes

“The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.”
“I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.”

Source : Paul Bourget (1893). “Cosmopolis”, p.152, Library of Alexandria
“Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech.”
“In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.”
“Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 18, 2014
“New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to invade the precincts of supposed progress, to lay chill hands on the heedless present, which does not know how to identify the forces that tug at its rationality.”

Source : Luc Sante (2016). “Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York”, p.10, Macmillan
“Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.”

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