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Philip Levine

"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."

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"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."

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"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

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"God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity."

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"Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day."

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"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."

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"It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us."

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"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God."

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"God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped."

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"The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence."

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"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

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"But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet."
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"My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs."
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