"Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves"

-- Lorna Goodison

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“Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.”
“Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve.”
“I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.”
“If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.”
“How can you worry about pleasing people [critics] and what they're going to think? How can you do anything creative if the whole thing is motivated by trying to please somebody else? To me, the whole idea of what I thought art, or music, or anything creative was about pleasing yourself and hoping that whatever you're creating will reach someone else who'll see it on that level. To worry about someone picking it apart and discussing it element for element, and trying to knock you down or weaken it in any way doesn't amount to anything but a waste of paper.”
“Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.”
“I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.”
“If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.”

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