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“The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.”

Book:Blue Pastures

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Blue Pastures

This book explores the life and experiences of individuals living in a tranquil countryside. more

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Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver is a renowned American poet, born on September 10, 1935. Her poetry is known for its profound depiction of the natural world and delicate insights into life. Oliver's style is simple and direct, which has won her a wide audience. more

“Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.”

Soul Force Differences Suspects Stubborn Preference Darling Spirited Inquiring Maverick Yardsticks Soul Life

Book:Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

Source: Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

“In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.”

Two Universe Given Ability Fire Warm Ability To Love

Book:Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

Source: Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

“If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.”

Ifs Doe Information Truth Is Paper Newspapers Statements Instigators

Author:Karl Kraus

“The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.”

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Book:Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry

Source: Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry

“The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.”

People Firsts Would Be Lying Break Hero Paid Soldier Reports Abandoned Submit Royal Castles Shameful Atrocities Trenches

Author:Karl Kraus

“The real truths are those that can be invented.”

Real Truth Real Truth

Author:Karl Kraus

“Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.”

May Whole School Water Fire Sea Cold Ocean Wave Fishes Surface Autumn Metals Sheets Here And There Schools Of Fish

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.”

Joy Song Quality Pure Remembered Dreamy Ethereal

Book:The Sense of Wonder

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.”

Greater Mystery Threshold

Book:The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

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