"...it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing..."

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

Galway Kinnell

#Flower Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Self Quotes

“You can't type what a lesbian is. We're anything and everything. The one thing in common is that we make love to other women. So give up trying to limit us.”
“There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.”
“I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching.”

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“You should stop asking your politicians how they're gonna do it.”
“Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life - tell them who God is.”
“But it's hard for me to pinpoint where all my characters and dialogue come from - imagination or real life. My memoir, of course, was all about my past, and many of the short stories cleave very closely to my life, but the more stories I wrote in the collection, the more that seemed to be invented, but who knows... I think I'm writing about a young woman with acne who shoplifts, but I'm really writing about myself.”
“I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.”
“I'd never hurt another person.”

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