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Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

“Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.”

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Reinhold Niebuhr was a prominent American theologian whose work on Christian ethics and social ethics had a profound impact on the 20th century. He was a key figure in theological discourse, particularly for his exploration of the nature of sin and the church's role in society. Niebuhr's theological thought has influenced various Christian denominations and has had a lasting effect on political and social thought. more

“The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.”

Use Certain Effort Brain Drug Thousand Normal Yoga Resources Method Technique Permit Reduction Exaggeration Fractions Clumsy

Author:Tom Robbins

“Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.”

Made Rain Window Curse

Author:Anne Sexton

“If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.”

Ifs Wells Reading Voice Differences Written Poet Instruments Staring Sheets Humming Sheet Music

Author:Robert Pinsky

“Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.”

Thinking Past Our Society Poetry Is Humankind Exile Modernity

Author:Octavio Paz

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