"This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can."

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Source : Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Of Gravity & Angels”, p.36, Wesleyan University Press

Jane Hirshfield

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“War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.”
“The sea hath fish for every man.”

Source : William Camden, John Philipot, Thomas Moule, Mark Antony Lower (1870). “Remains Concerning Britain”, p.334, Ep Publishing Limited
“No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim the right to force the minds of others. No rational society, no co-operation, no agreement, no understanding, no discussion are possible among men who propose to substitute guns for rational persuasion.”
“The laws governed people's happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.”

Source : Jess C Scott (2014). “Soulmates”, p.21, jessINK
“You don't want the children to know how afraid / you are. You want to be sure their hold on life / is steady, sturdy. Were mothers and fathers / always this anxious, holding the ringing / receiver close to the ear: / 'Why don't they answer where could they be?”

Source : Gail Mazur (1995). “The Common”, p.33, University of Chicago Press
“Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.”

Source : Isobelle Carmody, Nan McNab (2011). “The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)”, p.4, Allen & Unwin
“I thank the Lord that I may have passed some of the tests, but maybe there will have to be more before I shall have been polished to do all that the Lord would have me do. Sometimes when the veil has been very thin, I have thought that if the struggle had been still greater that maybe then there would have been no veil.”
“You've got to believe in the possibilities. You've got to believe that tomorrow can be better than today. And here's the big one. Believe in yourself.”

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