"As thou hast created me out of mingled air and glitter, I thank thee for it. [Ger., Wie aus Duft und Glanz gemischt Du mich schufst, dir dank ich's heut.]"

-- Friedrich Ruckert

#Air Quotes #Glitter Quotes #Creation Quotes

“I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going.”
“I'd rather go to sleep than find a girl.”
“This organic conception of society, the only vital conception, combines a noble humanism with the genuine Christian spirit, and it bears the inscription from Holy Writ which St. Thomas has explained: "The work of justice shall be peace"; a text applicable to the life of a people whether it be considered in itself or in its relations with other nations.”
“Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry, Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam And clear dances done in the sight of heaven.”

Source : Richard Wilbur (2012). “Poems of Richard Wilbur”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized...”
“Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.”
“Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort.”
“Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.”

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