"Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers"

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Source : Sir Edwin Arnold (1892). “Potiphar's Wife, and Other Poems”

Edwin Arnold

#Mother Quotes #Poet Quotes

“If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.”
“war to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method.”

Source : Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”
“Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.”
“From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.”
“You are perfect exactly as you are. With all your flaws and problems, there's no need to change anything. All you need to change is the thought that you aren't good enough.”
“This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended American public schools as recently as the early 1960s.”
“Mi Corazon. Mi alma. Son tuyos." My heart. My soul. They are yours, he whispered against the generous curve of her breast as a million sensations, all of them hot, all of them rich, all of them straddling the razor-sharp edge of pain, ripped through his loins like a flash fire and stripped him of everything but consciousness. "Tuyo. Todo que tengo es tuyo." Yours. Everything I have is yours.”
“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”

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