"If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices."

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Source : Susan Howe (1993). “The Birth-mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History”, p.47, Wesleyan University Press

Susan Howe

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“God's road for us may not be one that appears successful from our human vantage point, yet serves as part of his divine plan to fulfill his purposes in our lives.”
“Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.”
“Without music, life is a journey through a desert.”

Source : Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese
“To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start”
“A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my life, so maybe I'll come back to it in some sort of way.”
“A rich man can afford to be generous to many.”

Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group
“She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.”
“I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.”

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