"The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower"

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Source : Galway Kinnell (2016). “Three Books”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Galway Kinnell

“Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.”

Source : FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 05, 2012
“But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.121, Simon and Schuster
“Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.”
“We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.”
“Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.”
“I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.”
“Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.”
“Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.”

Source : Athenaeus (1854). “The Deipnosophists Or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus: With an Appendix of Poetical Fragments, Rendered Into English Verse by Various Authors and a General Index : in Three Volumes”, p.1003

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