Misattributed
“You have to imagine
a waiting that is not impatient
because it is timeless.”
Source: "The Echoes Return Slow" in The Echoes Return Slow (1988)
“[Behind Howard's stories] lurks a dark poetry and the timeless truth of dreams.”
~ Robert Bloch
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“The Age of Miracles is forever here!”
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Priest
“And now in my old age, she has again become the girl of my dreams.”
The Women in Our Lives, Sunday Morning Session, General Conference, October 3, 2004
Context: My children and I were at her bedside as she slipped peacefully into eternity. As I held her hand and saw mortal life drain from her fingers, I confess I was overcome. Before I married her, she had been the girl of my dreams, to use the words of a song then popular. She was my dear companion for more than two-thirds of a century, my equal before the Lord, really my superior. And now in my old age, she has again become the girl of my dreams.
"Censorship and its Aftermath" (June 1990)
1960s, Freedom From The Known (1969)
Context: Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare — something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state — something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption. Man has always asked the question: what is it all about? Has life any meaning at all? He sees the enormous confusion of life, the brutalities, the revolt, the wars, the endless divisions of religion, ideology and nationality, and with a sense of deep abiding frustration he asks, what is one to do, what is this thing we call living, is there anything beyond it?
mystic poetry and spirituality
“The imagination is an eye where images remain forever.”
