"Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace."

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Source : Geoffrey Hill (2013). “Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012”, p.415, Oxford University Press

Geoffrey Hill

#Grace Quotes #Language Quotes #Uncouth Quotes

“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.”
“I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy.”
“Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.”
“It isnâ€™t the fall that will kill you, but the sudden stop.”
“You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.”
“Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment.”

Source : Paul Gallico (1972). “Honorable Cat”, Three Rivers Press (CA)
“An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.”
“Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.”

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