Guedj Diouf Quotes & Sayings

For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do with seriousness. The comic can be very serious. The trouble with the earnest is that it seeks to be commended. It seeks to be praised for its intention more than for what it is saying. — Stephen Dobyns

We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness. — Vijay Seshadri

Forgiveness and grace are like oxygen: we can't offer it to others unless we put our masks on first. — Glennon Doyle Melton

History is what we read, write and think about the past. — Michael Howard

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple. — Henri Matisse

One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical. — Camille Pissarro

Egalitarians often claim that we cannot look to the Bible to settle these types of disputes; rather, we should look to church history or elsewhere. Most of the new egalitarian arguments are rooted outside of the Bible and instead seek credibility through history, archaeology, and manipulation of original Bible language. Each of these arguments is an attack on one of the perfections of Scripture: its authority, sufficiency, verbal plenary inspiration, and clarity. When these areas are undermined, the inerrancy of Scripture is ultimately at stake. — John Piper

Under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied ourselves that night, as if we were other people looking down on the couple who lay together on the bed — Siri Hustvedt