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“Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?”

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This book is a compilation of poems that explore a wide range of subjects and emotions, showcasing the beauty and depth of the poetic form. more

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Elizabeth Bishop

American poet known for her unique poetic style and profound insights into life. Elizabeth Bishop's works are renowned for their concise, straightforward language and rich emotional expression. more

“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.”

World Mind Doe Art Ideas Painting Eternal Spring Art Is Supreme Contact Works Of Art Plato Speculation Plato S Shelley

Book:Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.”

People May Mean Evil Force Vocabulary Inhumane

Book:Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Source: Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

“Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed." That sublime description could be reworked to explain each one of these miracles. Was it any different in principle for a broken body to mend at the command of its Maker? Was it far-fetched for the Creator of the universe, who fashioned matter out of nothing, to multiply bread for the crowd? Was it not within the power of the One who called all the molecules into existence to interlock them that they might bear His footsteps?”

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