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    Eugene Peterson
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    I found that keeping company with poets, men and women who care about words and are honest with them, who respect and honor their sheer overwhelming power, kept me alert—biblically alert, Jesus alert.

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    George MacDonald
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    No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers ha...

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    Thomas Aquinas
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    Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am ...

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    Tom Howard
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    Genesis 4:6-7 , Ecclesiastes 2:10-11, Daniel 3:16-18, Romans 12:1-2 , Luke 9:23-24 , Psalm 73:25-26
    Modern man is a bleak business. To our chagrin we discover that the declaration of autonomy has issued not in a race of free, masterly men, but rather in a race that can be described by its poets and ...

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    W. H. Auden
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    A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

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    Eugene Peterson
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    Isn’t it odd that pastors, who are responsible for interpreting the Scriptures, so much of which come in the form of poetry, have so little interest in poetry? … Words create. God’s word creates; our ...

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    Dorothy L. Sayers
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    To write the poem... is an act of love toward the poet's own imaginative act and toward his fellow beings.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Most emphatically the Psalms must be read as poems; as lyrics, with all the licenses and all the formalities, the hyperboles, the emotional rather than logical connections, which are proper to lyric p...

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    Alan J. Roxburgh
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    Language is the realm of the poet, of desire and hope, of the search for and expression of infinity.

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    J. R. R. Tolkein
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    '"Oh! That was poetry!' said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?”

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    Mark Galli
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    The most carefully crafted language in our culture tends to be poetry. And poetry at its finest moments subverts our best attempts at hiding from reality... The poetry of liturgy has just this power. ...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    John 1:1-5, Psalm 19:1-4, Isaiah 55:10-11, 1 Peter 1:23-25, Romans 10:17, Hebrews 4:12
    Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

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    Florence Nightingale
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    Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

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    W. H. Auden
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    I like hanging around words, listening to what they say.

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    Eugene Peterson
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    The Christian gospel is rooted in langauge: God spoke a creation into being; our Savior was the Word made flesh. The poet is the person who uses words not primarily to convey information but to make a...

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    John Donne
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    1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 1 Samuel 18:20, Romans 5:8, Proverbs 3:5-6, 1 John 4:18
    I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

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    Geoffrey Chaucer
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    “For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.”

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    C. S. Lewis
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    The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

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    Edward Goerge Bulwer-Lytton
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    Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.

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    T. S. Eliot
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    Old men ought to be explorers Here and there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For another union, a deeper communion.

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    N. T. Wright
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    The Psalms are inexhaustible, and deserve to be read, said, sung, chanted, whispered, learned by heart, and even shouted from the rooftops. They express all the emotions we are ever likely to feel (in...

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    Czesław Miłosz
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    Leaves glowing in the sun, zealous hum of bumblebees, From afar, from somewhere beyond the river, echoes of lingering voices And the unhurried sounds of a hammer gave joy not only to me. Before the fi...

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    Elie Wiesel
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    Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

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    Michael Pollan
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    A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    ‘For my own way of expressing myself almost always disappoints me… I am saddened that my tongue cannot live up to my heart.’

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    Steve Jobs
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    "Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quo...

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    Author
    John Greenleaf Whittier
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    Scripture
    Genesis 37:39–50 , Lamentations 3:22–23 , Ruth 1:4, Luke 7:36–50, 2 Corinthians 4:16–18, Psalm 126:5–6
    “God pity them both! and pity us all,  Who vainly the dreams of youth recall;  For of all sad words of tongue or pen,  The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’  Ah, well! for us all some...

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    Robert Burns
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    Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

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    Hans Urs von Balthasar
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    Galatians 5:6, Luke 10:38-42, Ephesians 3:17-19, John 13:34-35, 1 Corinthians 13:2, 1 John 4:7-8
    Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.
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