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The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
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“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It
“Some want to live within the sound
Of church or chapel bell;
I want to run a rescue shop,
Within a yard of hell.”
― C.T. Studd
Of church or chapel bell;
I want to run a rescue shop,
Within a yard of hell.”
― C.T. Studd
“An artist cannot do anything slovenly.”
― Jane Austen
― Jane Austen
“And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold, and all men were hushed. And he sang to them, now in the Elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
― J.R.R. Tolkien
broken hands (Travel)
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A very short story about a girl preparing to leave the country.
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