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"Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me."
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"You're free to wear whatever you want, you know."

"Something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring what is within out!"

"Express your feelings, no matter what. Make your every word beautiful, bright, and lovely. Make your every thought creative, caring, and lively."

"At any moment, you can use your face to open doors of opportunity if it demonstrates interest, enthusiasm, respect, understanding, delight, agreement, and more."

"A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!"

"The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth."

"It's not really outstanding when you're standing outOutcry is the only outburst,if you can't shout."

"When a man talks from the heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry."

"If words are the truth, what is living for?"

"Words can be honed to crafted perfection by the finest wordsmiths. Yet, if we trust solely in the expanse of them to explain this God of ours or articulate our experience of Him, we will have brutally destroyed the very things we are attempting to explain. And if I should do that, no words can describe how badly I wish I had no words."
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"Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience."


"It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it."


"The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time."


"Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in."
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