
Poetic Manifesto, published in the Texas Quarterly (Winter 1961)
Attributed
Poetic Manifesto, published in the Texas Quarterly (Winter 1961)
Source: All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day
“Faith is the champion of grace, and love the nurse; but humility is the beauty of grace.”
Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 221.
“We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.”
The Art of Persuasion
Context: Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we can love them... the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.
“They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin.”
1780s, Annotations to Lavater (1788)