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One might almost fear, writes a thoughtful woman, seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers (Ter Quotes)
Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds (Ter Quotes)
Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life (Ter Quotes)
It is energy, the central element of which is will, that produces the miracles of enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is the main-spring of what is called force of character, and the sustaining power of all great action (Ter Quotes)
One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors (Ter Quotes)
The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) will never now, it is too late, master the art of flying straight (Ter Quotes)
When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeting, chin to knee on the orchard wall, cooled with dew and cherries eating. Merry, merry, take a cherry mine are sounder, mine are rounder mine are sweeter, for the eater when the dews fall. And you'll be fairies all (Ter Quotes)
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and i if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman (Ter Quotes)
Trench stinks of shallow buried dead Where Tom stands at the periscope, tired out. After nine months he's shed all fear, all faith, all hate, all hope (Ter Quotes)
One, two and many: flesh had made him blind, flesh had one pleasure only in the act, flesh set one purpose only in the mind - triumph of flesh and afterwards to find still those same terrors wherewith flesh was racked (Ter Quotes)
His wiles were witty and his fame far known, every king's daughter sought him for her own, yet he was nothing to be won or lost. All lands to him were Ithaca: love-tossed he loathed the fraud, yet would not bed alone (Ter Quotes)
It doesn't matter what's the cause, what wrong they say we're righting, a curse for treaties, bonds and laws, when we're to do the fighting! (Ter Quotes)
Poet, never chase the dream. Laugh yourself and turn away. Mask your hunger, let it seem small matter if he come or stay; but when he nestles in your hand at last, close up your fingers tight and hold him fast (Ter Quotes)
Immeasurable at every hour: he first taught lovers how to kiss, he brings down sunshine after shower, thunder and hate are his also, he is yes and he is no (Ter Quotes)
Nine-tenths of english poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties (Ter Quotes)
Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest (Ter Quotes)
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer (Ter Quotes)
I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write (Ter Quotes)
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments (Ter Quotes)
The gorilla-slayer moved out into the glade. Massive, terrible, he was the personification of the primitive, the stone age. His mouth yawned in a red cavern of a grin; he bore himself with the haughty arrogance of savage might (Ter Quotes)
And about the table where stood the dark man, immovable as a mountain, washed the red waves of slaughter (Ter Quotes)
When I was a fighting-man, the kettle-drums they beat, the people scattered gold-dust before my horses feet; but now I am a great king, the people hound my track with poison in my wine-cup, and daggers at my back (Ter Quotes)
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them' (Ter Quotes)
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education (Ter Quotes)
Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers (Ter Quotes)
Someone who cannot acknowledge himself to be as mortal as everyone else still has a long way to go before he can reach the point of encounter (Ter Quotes)
The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity (Ter Quotes)
Those who are served by the present limit-situation regard the untested feasibility as a threatening limit-situation which must not be allowed to materialize, and act to maintain the status quo (Ter Quotes)
Thematic investigation thus becomes a common striving towards awareness of reality and towards self-awareness, which makes this investigation a starting point for the educational process or for cultural action of a liberating character (Ter Quotes)
Some may think that to affirm dialogue - the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world - is naively and subjectively idealistic. There is nothing, however, more real or concrete than people in the world and with the world, than humans with other humans (Ter Quotes)