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...for poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help us see or feel. If it were merely expressible - if there were nothing ineffable about it - there would be no need for a poem. But everywhere in the Bible we meet reality that exceeds our expectations. John Piper
Mark Strand quote: "Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about..."
Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. Mark Strand
If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,--then certes the soul does not inhabit there. Laurence Stern
A. Whitney Brown quote: "Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love..."
Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning. A. Whitney Brown
Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing. Anne Rice
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. C. S. Lewis
We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss. Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally. George R. R. Martin
When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence. Nicholas Sparks
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug..."
Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them? Madeleine L'Engle
I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too. Steve Martin
It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they? Carl Sagan
You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena. Jon Stewart
Cecily: “Miss Prism says that all good looks are a snare” Algernon: “They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.” Cecily: “Oh, I don’t think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn’t know what to talk to him about. Oscar Wilde
He felt he was about to experience again some ancient, delicious childhood moment that the steam calliope's sour hollowness, the stitching hurdy-gurdy accompaniment, and the drum-and-cymbal crash brought almost to the margin of his grasp. Patricia Highsmith
Curiously, the darkness seemed to have something to do with Harriet, Ron's intended, and I thought for a time that it was simply the reality of Harriet's arrival that had dramatized the passing of time: we had been talking about it and now suddenly it was here? just as Brenda's departure would be here before we knew it. Philip Roth

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