"I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do."

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Source : Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”

Mari Evans

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“To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts.”
“Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.”
“I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery.”
“I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.”
“The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.”
“Is it not possible that the ultimate end is gaiety and music and a dance of joy?”

Source : James Stephens (2015). “The Crock of Gold”, p.9, Booklassic
“Jesus didn't save you so you could cruise to heaven in a luxury liner. He wants you to be useful in His kingdom! The moment you got saved, He enrolled you in His school the school of suffering and affliction.”
“I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.”

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