#entry

It's a wonderful, inspiring feeling to have real friends who love and understand you. I have never had that feeling before. ↗

— Hélène Berr

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#inspirational

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death. ↗

— Donald Cargill

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#carry #death #entry #fair #fear

If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic. ↗

— Walker Percy

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#poetry #reentry-problems #suicide #art