"The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Weed Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Kneeling Quotes

“My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.”
“Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.”

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“Never trust a man who can dance.”
“The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels.”
“I think every single American believes they have a right to clean air and clean water.”
“Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.”
“It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.”
“The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters ...”

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