"Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?"

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Hilda Doolittle

#War Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Tents Quotes

“I wanted to be part of something bigger”
“I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious." "I wouldn't judge him too harshly," says Fernando. "Jeanine can be extraordinarily persuasive to those who aren't naturally suspicious. I have always been naturally suspicious." ... "Yeah," I say. "So have I.”
“Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.”
“A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.”
“Politicians - well, first of all, they should get rid of nuclear weapons, I think.”
“The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.192, U of Nebraska Press
“Maybe God's goal wasn't for me to raise a good rule-following child. Instead, His goal was for me to raise a God-following adult.”
“What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.”

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