"There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality."

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

#Country Quotes #Law Quotes #Common Sense Quotes

“The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.”
“It's the worst form of torture a person can imagine-the wait to die.”
“My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible of language - that working in poetry and prose is energizing - to me as a writer and to the work itself.”

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“Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.”
“Pray, even if you feel nothing, see nothing. For when you are dry, empty, sick or weak, at such a time is your prayer most pleasing to God, even though you may find little joy in it. This is true of all believing prayer.”
“Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.”
“My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.”
“Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one's particular life path might appear to one's self or others at any given moment.”

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