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For Easter Sunday, Here is a reminder from Pope Leos XIV that true Christianity is about peace and love of neighbor. It is NOT about profit, war, and retribution. Brothers and sisters,Christ is risen! Happy Easter! For centuries, the Church has joyfully sung of the event that is the origin and foundation of her faith:… Read more
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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ~ Thomas Merton Read more
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“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ~ Pablo Neruda Read more
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus Read more
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“By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live”. ~ W.B. Yeats Read more
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[Classic Literature is} news that stays new.” ~ Ezra Pound Read more
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“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Read more
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In the rabbinical tradition, at times of calamity and great suffering, Jews are advised to read three books: The fact that the most important passages of these books were written in poetry is no accident. For it is poetry, and poetry alone, that can truly give voice to the utterances of our hearts. “How lonely sits the… Read more
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. – Carl Sandburg Read more
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If I were ever to teach a class to aspiring American poets, I would have one required text: the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. Hemingway famously wrote in The Green Hills of Africa that all modern American fiction comes from one book, Huckleberry Finn. A similar thing can be said for Walt Whitman and the 1855 edition of Leaves… Read more
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