"my children's faces are private candles i sometimes worship at ..."

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Source : Deborah Keenan (2007). “Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems”

Deborah Keenan

#Children Quotes #Faces Quotes #Worship Quotes

“Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'”
“Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.”
“The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.”
“I’m letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn’t work well.”
“The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.”
“Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.”
“In the end all collaborations are love stories.”
“There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, and that's a terrible feeling on the set.”

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