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Cecilia is Currently Reading

Cecilia is currently reading

Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically

by Paisley Rekdal

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Cecilia’s Quotes

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

tags: destruction, ecology, reality, universe, wonder

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“If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter a sensation that is one's very own.”
― Yu Hua, 十個詞彙裡的中國

tags: literature, power-of-words, reading

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“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

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“When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves. ”
― Eugene Peterson

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