Source: Motherland (2012 novel), p. 18
Source: The King of Attolia
“Everything about Florence seems to be coloured with a mild violet, like diluted wine.”
Letter to Henry James Sr. (26 October 1869).
"How Awful When Poetry Ages As It Is Read"
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”
“Spirituality and ritual are not something removed from the world, but are deeply embedded in it.”
Toward an Activist Spirituality (2003)
Context: Spirituality and ritual are not something removed from the world, but are deeply embedded in it.
Reclaiming is founded on Earth-based spirituality, which rejects the split between spirit and matter, and claims nature and the physical, material world as equally sacred with the spirit.
“Oh. Well, that was marvelous.”
Source: The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003), p. 419
“I think there’s something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence.”
As quoted in "Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding" by Katrina Onstad, in The New York Times (14 July 2011) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/magazine/the-make-believer.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all
Context: I think there’s something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence. It’s impossible to articulate, and it’s happening now, almost like a perverse secret.... That’s always sort of fascinating to me.
Matthew Lickona (December 24, 2008) "Hedonistic" http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/dec/24/Hedonistic/, San Diego Reader.
