"For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see."

-- Adrienne Rich

#Mean Quotes #Way Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.”
“Between the dusk of a summer night And the dawn of a summer day, We caught at a mood as it passed in flight, And we bade it stoop and stay. And what with the dawn of night began With the dusk of day was done; For that is the way of woman and man, When a hazard has made them one. Arc upon arc, from shade to shine, The World went thundering free; And what was his errand but hers and mine - The lords of him, I and she? O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one.”
“Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.”
“Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.”
“Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.”
“I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.”
“Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?”
“The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.”

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