"To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed."

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Source : Gertrude Jekyll (1919). “Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden”

Gertrude Jekyll

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“We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and compassionate God today, and then refuse to live passionately and compassionately tomorrow. If we say or sing, as we so often do, 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit', we thereby commit ourselves, in love, to the work of making his love known to the world that still stands so sorely in need of it. This is not the god the world wants. This is the God the world needs.”
“Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.”
“My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.”
“Events are less important than our responses to them.”
“Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.”
“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.”
“Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day”
“Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault,”

Source : Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus (2000). “Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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