Marie Ponsot quotes
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“Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.”
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“I stand above the tree level I am a tree I catch wind storm breaths My branches claw I drink sky It stretches me I don't care I catch jokes and luck from tall thin blue air”
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“Strike deep, divide us from cheap-got doubt, Leap, leap between us and the easy out; Teach us to seize, to use, to sleep well, to let go; Let our loves, freed in us, gaudy and graceful, grow.”
-- Marie PonsotSource : Marie Ponsot (2013). “Springing: New and Selected Poems”, p.64, Knopf
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“When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.”
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.195, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”
Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967
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“I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.”
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