I'm used to working with restrictions and that's when you come up with the more creative stuff.
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.
The thing that is believed is a reality.
The English language is nobody's special property.
To change your language you must change your life.
The word and the shadow of the word makes a thing both itself and something else till we are metaphors and not ourselves. . .
Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire poesia "Metamorfosi, I. Luna
There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't word length. The issue is a commitment to speaking in a way an audience can understand.
We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of harmonious voices, but still we have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard practical reality. When faith becomes obedience then it is true faith indeed.
A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.
I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.