"Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest."

-- Wendell Berry

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“Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.”
“True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.”
“I certainly very much enjoy acting, but I am open to anything really. I think it's important when you have those moments in life when you are not attached to something, and you are not quite sure what the next phase of your journey is going to look like, that you don't pigeon-hole yourself.”

Source : Interview with Kristi York Wooten, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.”
“It's a funny thing, when you talk to God, you're religious, but when he talks to you, you're a psychopath.”
“The membership survey was a great moment for inner-party democracy. We can't go back, nor do we want to. Our members are pouring their hearts into this campaign. But people don't join the Social Democrats party just to put up posters. They join because they want to help steer the party.”
“Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.”

Source : Anne Spencer, “At The Carnival”
“What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.”

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