"Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts."

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Source : Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings”, p.425, Stanford University Press

Robinson Jeffers

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“If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life.”
“Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.”
“There is no map that can show you how to leap. The map for this is somewhere in our own imagination.”
“And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.”

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“With humans you would say, "Don't stand over there." and that would probably work. With puppets, you can't stand over there because you would see the guy underneath. So it is a lot of foreground stuff.”

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“No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.”

Source : Rex Stout (2010). “Some Buried Caesar”, p.51, Crimeline
“Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.”
“God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?”

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