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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“On Climbing the Sierra Mountains again after 31 years
Range after range of mountains
Year after year after year.
I am still in love.”
― Gary Snyder

“There are two versions to every poem – the crying version and the straight version”
― Galway Kinnell

“If you love it enough, anything will talk to you.”
― George Washington Carver