James K. Baxter quotes

“The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.”
-- James K. Baxter

Source : James K. Baxter, John Edward Weir (1979). “Collected poems”, Oxford University Press, USA

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“But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.”
-- James K. Baxter

Source : Vincent O'Sullivan, James K. Baxter (1976). “James K. Baxter”

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“The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It is a crisis of powerlessness in which our sole recourse is to call on the help and inward power of the Holy Spirit.”
-- James K. Baxter

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“Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.”

“A poem round and perfect as a star.”

“But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.”

“It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.”

“Ghana is like a lion without a head”

“The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.”

“Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]”

“The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.”

Source : James K. Baxter, John Edward Weir (1979). “Collected poems”, Oxford University Press, USA

“We're living in a den of thieves”

“The world is a den of crazies.”