"Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it."

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Marilyn Hacker

#Spiritual Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I would say much of religious heresy is the result of a misunderstanding of the basic nature of God. And once we have a proper understanding of God, then usually most of the areas of our life coincide with who God is and what He desires for each one of us.”
“A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances.”
“There's no doubt we were unworthy, but we were never worthless. Big difference.”
“The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale,”
“It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.”
“Let the work speak for itself.”
“A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.”

Source : Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt
“Harmy is a class bowler and I think he's one of the main reasons why England have improved over the last 18 months.”

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