"Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination."

-- Parker J. Palmer

#Imagination Quotes #Doe Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Remember, too, that at a time when people are very concerned with their health and its relationship to what they eat, we have handed over the responsibility for our nourishment to faceless corporations.”
“Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with his or her conscience and get its approval, without knowing force or specious knowledge, then he or she begins to know what real happiness is.”
“Let's be pastors who cast vision that are worth people giving their life for.”
“Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.”
“In spite of the great advances which have been made in our knowledge, some fundamental gaps remain. Matter, life and mind still remain utter disparate phenomena, yet the concepts of all three arise in experience; and in the human all three meet and intermingle.”
“I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.”
“To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.”

Source : Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”
“When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.”

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