"The poet casts an eye on what is horrendous, but his truest life is in what sustains, restores, heals. Love, the act of loving, beauty, are first, fundamental truths."

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Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

Lawrence Joseph

#Eye Quotes #Poet Quotes #Heal Quotes

“Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking.”
“I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.”
“And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.”
“My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.”
“Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.”
“If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him well enough for the act to have impact. No death should be like nose blowing. Death is important enough that it should affect the person who causes it.”

Source : Alexei Panshin, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon (1968). “Rite of passage”
“What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.”

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