“While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my days
in backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.”
"Jesus Saves, I Spend" - ( Studio video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYoT14ZRY2E - Video of live performance on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt3ykoc4tu0)
Marry Me (2007)
Context: While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my days
in backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.
While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,
I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.
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As quoted in Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 580.
Deseret News: Semi-Weekly, 1 (30 June 1874)
1870s
“My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.”
Quoted in "Indira's Coup," profile by Oriana Fallaci, The New York Review of Books (September 18, 1975).
“While people will cheer on the spectacle we've made
I'm sitting and sculpting menageries of saints.”
"Jesus Saves, I Spend"
Marry Me (2007)
“If we are to be saved, it will not be by Romans but by saints.”
Source: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VII The End of the World
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 591.
“Saints do not die. It is their lot,
To die while on this earth to all that God is not.”
The Cherubinic Wanderer