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“I am so glad To come accidentally upon My self at the end of a tortuous road And have learned with surprise that God Unworshipped withers to the Futile One. —PATRICK KAVANAGH, FROM “AUDITORS IN”
― Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

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“Along with sharp criticism, America needed a class of writers that would embrace the country and give it “a national character, an identity” creating “a new moral American continent” without which the physical one was “a carcass, a bloat.”
― David S. Reynolds, Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography

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“He would once say that he wanted Leaves of Grass to be published as a pocket book, to be carried around everywhere: “That would tend to induce people to take me along with them and read me in the open air: I am nearly always successful with the reader in the open air.”
― David S. Reynolds, Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography

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“According to legend, because he spoke little English, von Steuben relied on a translator to chew out the men, frequently yelling, “Over here! Swear at him for me!” when his insults in French and German failed to achieve the desired results.”
― Patrick K. O'Donnell, Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution

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“Religion is not made of these moments; religion is the means of making these moments part of your life rather than merely radical intrusions so foreign and perhaps even fearsome that you can’t even acknowledge their existence afterward. Religion is what you do with these moments of over-mastery in your life, these rare times in which you are utterly innocent.”
― Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

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