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First books, for many people, seem to be sort of autobiographical incursions into who they are, and what it means to be who they are.

— Linda Hogan Conversations with the World by Phebe Davidson (1998)

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Blessed are they who listen
when no one is left to speak.

They think these are only stories
not what holds the world together
in its balance.

A History of Kindness (2020)

This land is the house we have always lived in

Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems (2014)

It really is true that the history of your people and your land is in the human body.

Some men sleep
with loose hands that by day are fists
holding fear

Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems (2014)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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