"One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent."

-- Stephen Dobyns

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“The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.”

Source : Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.222, W. W. Norton & Company
“Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God.”
“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”

Source : John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books
“I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person,”
“I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.”

Source : "Romney stirs 'birther' controversy, Akin to stay in Senate race". www.cnn.com. August 24, 2012.
“God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.”
“There are some people who're all doctors. Is it genetic?”

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