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Rereading and enchanted. The first time was 2017.Now reading it together with my wife.
(I remember the garden and gardener.
I have been in Malasia and the jungle
I have been at a tea plantation and factory.
I have visited Mrs Smith’s Rose Garden. She w ...more "
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John Pendrey said:
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I love Kathleen Raine’s poems so it was hard to imagine that a novel could capture in any way her thoughts and life.But just a few pages in and an old photo and I can easily believe, especially, as apart from her poems, books and lectures I know litt ...more "
John Pendrey said:
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Brilliant, accomplished. Excellent for reading aloud.Fascinating because the main character, Edith is a novelist.
At chapter 9 I was champagne celebrating along with Edith (mine was elderflower champagne) "
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
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“I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us...It was all about letting go of everything.”
― When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
― When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
“Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is active and purposeful collaboration in evil that brings the Christian into direct and intimate contact with the same source of evil and hatred which inspires the acts of his enemy. It leads in practice to a denial of Christ and to the service of hatred rather than love.”
― Passion for Peace; Reflections on War and Nonviolence
― Passion for Peace; Reflections on War and Nonviolence
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
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