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“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.” Kahlil Gibran
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” Paul Valéry
“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.” Percy Byshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, 1821
“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” W.B. Yeats
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Percy Byshe Shelley
“Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.” Henrik Ibsen
“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.” Stephen Mallarme
“Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.” Joseph Roux
When we think about Jesus as that exceptional, unusual person who lived long ago and whose life and words continue to inspire us, we might avoid the realisation that Jesus wants us to be like him. Jesus himself keeps saying in many ways that he, the Beloved Child of God, came to reveal to us that we too are God’s beloved children, loved with the same unconditional divine love.
John writes to his people: “You must see what great love the Father has lavished on us by letting us be called God’s children – which is what we are.” (1 John 3:1). This is the great challenge of the spiritual life: to claim the identity of Jesus for ourselves and to say: “We are the living Christ today!”
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