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“We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.”

Firsts Past Doors Building Broken Proud Window Empty Plates Renewal New Day Gleam Tiles Each New Day

Book:I explain a few things: selected poems

Source: I explain a few things: selected poems

“Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility.”

Feels Heart Pain Night Passion Break Humility Broken Proud Moon Thee

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.”

Spirit Powerful Poverty Rich Broken Proud Unfortunate Scorn Malice Outrage Insolence Broken Spirit

Book:The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents

Source: The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents

“Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!”

War Hard Fighting Blood Broken Proud Draws Horse England Gentleman Arrows Spurs Archer Yeoman

Book:The Plays of William Shakspeare: Henry VI, pts. II-III. Dissertation, &c. Richard III

Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare: Henry VI, pts. II-III. Dissertation, &c. Richard III

“Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate.”

Heart Love Is Fate Broken Wall Proud Sells Gates Breach Citadels

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

“Everything that makes a society run is broken in Iraq. The only real structure is the people's own sense of themselves as Iraqis, which was very strong. They're a proud people, and they trace their historic roots way, way back.”

People Way Real Running Strong Broken Proud Roots Structure Iraq Very Strong Historic

Author:Bruce Cockburn

“And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.”

“Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. Love that overthrows empire. Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire & brimstone. For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery. But now -- I have lost my gift. It's as if my quill is broken, as if the organ of my imagination has dried up, as if the proud -illegible word- of my genius has collapsed.”

Ifs Heart Two Together Lost Causes Imagination Lines Broken Proud Genius Cups Empires Organs Making Love Clay My Imagination Potters Riot Quills Two Hearts

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“He loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our resume but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.”

Children Important Love Is Broken Proud Holy Pure Infinite Filled Selfish Wicked Arrogant Awkward Rejected Flawed God's Love Resumes Indescribable Sorrowful

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, "That's the last of 'em Lee." He said, or thought, "Those poor men didn't have to come to this, nor did we." She said, "We held 'em off. We held out. We're a-helping Lyra." Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.”

Men Littles Said Self Helping Lasts Faces Poor Saws Broken Proud Ears Died Ems Poor Man

Author:Philip Pullman

“Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.”

Littles Self Faces Broken Proud Died

Book:The subtle knife

Source: The subtle knife

“Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.”

Source: Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons