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• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. — A. R. Ammons
• The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in… — Susan Sontag
• We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves — Robert Macfarlane
• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.… — A. R. Ammons
• How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood?… — Gaston Bachelard
• When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At… — Alberto Villoldo
• Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet… — Michael Dirda
• 'Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights' (Jms. 1:17). But there is… — Pope Dionysius
• Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual… — Nelson Mandela
• Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving,… — Matthew Fox
• Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are. — Alain de Botton
• Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death. — Mason Cooley

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