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“What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.”
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“A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.”
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“I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use”
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“And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happening that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.”
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“God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it?”
Source : Walter Wangerin (1989). “The manger is empty: stories in time”, Harpercollins
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“Indolence is the sleep of the mind.”
Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Réflexions, 390, p. 384-85, 1922.
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“I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.”
Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.
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“Caring for others creates the spirit of a nation.”