| | quote of the week archive |
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| | Stories are always true. It’s the facts that mislead.
—Jeannette Winterson |
| | Say a prayer and adorn yourself with the vestments of love, reverence, obedience and perseverance.
—Cennino Cennini |
| | Pleasure can be radical. In a divided culture, being undivided and synthesizing and connecting across broad areas can be an act of resistance, just as being slow a sped-up culture is an act of resistance.
—Rebecca Solnit |
| | Art is a way of melting out through one’s own skin. “What, who is this about?” is not the essential question. A poem is not about; it is out of and to.
—Adrienne Rich |
| | I overstate things to stay alive.
I know the moment I stop being angry I’m finished forever.
—Don deLillo |
| | Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.
—Wynn Bullock |
| | My most powerful messenger is experience.
—Neale Donald Walsch |
| | Metaphor is an act of inquiry (not an expression of what we already know).
—Mark Doty |
| | I overstate things to stay alive.
I know the moment I stop being angry I’m finished forever.
—Don deLillo |
| | We cannot take care of what we cannot see.
—Gerald Wilhelm |
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