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Gloria’s Quotes

“Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.”
― W.S. Merwin

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“Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Finding Beauty in a Broken World

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“What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Finding Beauty in a Broken World

tags: culture, disappearance, intelligence, language, narrative

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“Send me out into another life
lord because this one is growing faint
I do not think it goes all the way”
― W.S. Merwin

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“What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light shining in a dark corner. Our ability to shift our perceptions and seek creative alternatives to the conondrums of modernity is in direct proportion to our empathy. Can we imagine, witness, and ultimately feel the suffering of another?”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Finding Beauty in a Broken World

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