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“There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.”

Quote by Joyce Kilmer

Book:Summer of Love

Work

This book delves into the transformative power of the 1960s counterculture, focusing on the experiences of individuals during the iconic Summer of Love period. It captures the spirit of the era, highlighting themes of freedom, love, and social change. more

Author

Joyce Kilmer was an American writer known for his poetry and prose, characterized by themes of nature and religious faith. His most famous work is 'Tree,' a poem celebrated for its simple yet profound imagery. Born on December 6, 1886, Kilmer was killed in action in France during World War I at the age of 31. more

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“At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful ... The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over - a century after it is over.”

People Writing Trying Book War Care Beautiful Century Poet Expression Soldier Telling The Truth Not Interested I Care Something Beautiful

Book:Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

Source: Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

“They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.”

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Book:Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

Source: Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

“The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.”

People Thinking World War Soul Causes Consciousness Terrible Impact Harm Drones

Author:Alice Walker

“I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddyit's serious business. It's not something where you think, Oh, I've got it done. I did it all day, hotdiggety. The truth is, all day long you try to do it, try to be it, and then in the evening if you're honest and have a little courage you look at yourself and say, Hmm. I only blew it eighty-six times. Not bad.”

“Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.”

People Ifs Want Mean Persons I Can Use Poetry Mines Good Life Interpreting

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“We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.”

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Author:Newt Gingrich

“There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God.”

Knows Children Clean Child Of God Intruders

Author:Maya Angelou

“I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.”

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“When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.”

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Author:Maya Angelou