"When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer."

-- Denise Levertov

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“I truly am not a fan of iPhones, iTunes, Facebook, cell phones - all of these ways to be manipulated these days.”
“I would admit Im an introvert. I dont know why introverts have to apologize.”
“She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.”

Source : Mavis Gallant (2011). “Varieties of Exile”, p.200, New York Review of Books
“Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.”
“Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.”
“You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.”
“You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way...you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.”

Source : "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.
“Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.”

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