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Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.
- Anthony Browne
When I think of the meaning of food, I always remember these lines by the poet William Carlos Williams, which seem to me merely honest: There is nothing to eat, seek it where you will, but of the body of the Lord. The blessed plants and the sea, yield it to the imagination intact.
- Wendell Berry
What I am sure of is that we have lost the old apprehension of Nature as a being accessible to imagination, linking Heaven and Earth, making and informing the incarnate creation, and requiring of humanity an obedience at once worshipful, ethical, and economic.
- Wendell Berry
Loving the forest, you enter it to walk and watch. As you observe its manifold and comely life, it enters familiarly into imagination, and so into sympathy. By sympathy the mind in the forest is made at home.
- Wendell Berry
Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.
- Wendell Berry
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
- William Faulkner
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
- William Faulkner
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- William Faulkner
Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
- William Faulkner
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not yet be old enough to desire the fruits of it, which is not innocence but appetite; his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it, which is not ignorance but size.
- William Faulkner
I would think about his name until after a while I could see the word as a shape, a vessel, and I would watch him liquefy and flow into it like cold molasses flowing out of the darkness into the vessel, until the jar stood full and motionless: a significant shape profoundly without life like an empty door frame; and then I would find that I had forgotten the name of the jar.
- William Faulkner
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
- William Golding