"A delicate fabric of bird song Floats in the air, The smell of wet wild earth Is everywhere. Oh I must pass nothing by Without loving it much, The raindrop try with my lips, The grass with my touch; For how can I be sure I shall see again The world on the first of May Shining after the rain?"

-- Sara Teasdale

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“As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart.”

Source : Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1978). “The Fruit of Lips: Of Why Four Gospels?”, p.85, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.”
“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.”
“I've only played gangsters and cops, and I always have to be serious.”
“It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.”

Source : Art (1914) pt. 1, ch. 3
“I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.”
“Look, I don't want to win in the press. I want to win on the field.”
“For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it; the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us.”

Source : Harlan Cleveland (1966). “The obligations of power: American diplomacy in the search for peace”

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