"By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake."

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Source : Martha Ostenso (1937). “The Stone Field”, New York, Dodd

Martha Ostenso

#Morning Quotes #Rain Quotes #Lakes Quotes

“There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.”
“The end of the world begins the moment you die.”
“Where does the hand become the wrist? where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that razor's edge between something and nothing, between one and the other.”

Source : Simon Armitage (2005). “The Shout: Selected Poems”, Houghton Mifflin
“I don't think of music as being a competition - what I make is exactly what I want it to be for me, and it's not better or worse than anything else. I'm just trying to be the best at what I am, or that I possibly can be. And when I've done that, I feel incredibly confident and there's nothing anyone can see to dampen that, but I don't think that because it means something to me, it has to necessarily mean something to other people.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“Take me someplace where we can be silent together.”
“They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.”
“The conflict will always beyond ur strength.The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far we'll go for God:"Here's how far I'm going to love,this is how many times I'll turn the other cheek."The test kills the limits of our humanity,til we're like Christ in everything We're left with a choice:Become Christlike or gradually shrivel into superficial hypocrites: angry people who have stopped walking with God, who blame others for our bitterness.”
“I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.”

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