Deborah Keenan quotes
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“my children's faces are private candles i sometimes worship at ...”
-- Deborah KeenanSource : Deborah Keenan (2007). “Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems”
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“My son called to me that God was inside his red fire engine. He wanted to show me. I did move as fast as I could, spilling like water through the kitchen door into a summer day, but God had left by the time I got there. My son smiled, told me I'd missed him by seconds.”
-- Deborah KeenanSource : Deborah Keenan (2011). “Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems”, p.85, Milkweed Editions
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“The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing.”
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“In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.”
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“This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.”
-- Deborah KeenanSource : Deborah Keenan (2011). “Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems”, p.100, Milkweed Editions
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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“True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.”
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“If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.”
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“Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.”