Christopher Benfey quotes
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“Sometimes, the shortest path between two points is serpentine,”
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“Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world.”
-- Christopher BenfeySource : "Poet Emily Dickinson Was A Much Loved Baker". "All Things Considered" with David Greene, kclu.org. December 27, 2016.
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“Emily Dickinson did not like was one of the stated purposes of the college - to convert young women to the Christian cause, finding Christ as their personal savior. She was one of the students who were declared without hope.”
-- Christopher Benfey
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“Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”
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“The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.”
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“The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.”
Source : Alaya Dawn Johnson (2013). “The Summer Prince”, p.173, Scholastic Inc.
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Source : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”
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