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W. H. Auden
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
W. H. Auden
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
St. Francis of Assisi
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
St. Francis of Assisi
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
St. Francis of Assisi
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
St. Francis of Assisi
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
St. Francis of Assisi
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
St. Francis of Assisi
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.