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[H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture-”and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death.

[H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture-”and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death.
– Paul Kalanithi

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  2. Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water. – Kamand Kojouri
  3. I’ll be ready when you are, esclave. A life for a life. A tale for a tale. – Pepper Winters
  4. If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous. – Orson Scott Card
  5. A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form. – Paul Kalanithi
  6. To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  7. Two forces create eternity -“ a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale. – Dejan Stojanovic
  8. Even if you are perfect the World isn’t. – Paul Kalanithi
  9. Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection – Paul Kalanithi
  10. Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job- not a calling. – Paul Kalanithi
  11. People often ask if it was calling. My answer always is yes. – Paul Kalanithi
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  15. Holy Scripture is Holy Scripture. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  16. Your future is in the scripture so do not ignore the scripture – udeagha iwuchukwu michael
  17. Jesus did not dispute [Satan] . . . our Lord quoted Scripture, and that’s one thing the devil can’t stand! The Scripture defeats him every time. – Billy Graham
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  19. If we believe the Canon is closed and Scripture is sufficient, then we believe God is not speaking new words apart from Scripture. – Dan Phillips
  20. Death was a living creature. Death was a man tormented by his past. Death was once a human. – SKN Hammerstone
  21. Paul’s one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future. – Craig Groeschel
  22. When you think on the powerful truths of Scripture, God uses His Word to change your way of thinking. – Elizabeth George
  23. The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile. – Ursula K Le Guin
  24. His lips are against my ear and I feel the warmth of his body surrounding me, caging me in, comforting me. – Collette West
  25. Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might. – Radhe Maa
  26. He learned to trust the Father when circumstances seemed hopeless. Christ used the tool of adversity to forge radiant joy in his spirit. – Nicholas Cappas
  27. Poetry is an act of love. Without love life is impossible. Without poetry love has no exuberance. – Debasish Mridha
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  34. With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet will create his best poetry. – Amit Kalantri
  35. The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia. – Paul Evdokimov
  36. We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry. – Muriel Rukeyser
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  38. Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things – Ilyas Kassam
  39. What is poetry? Only the poetry can answer this! – TRIPURARI
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