#lawrence

One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#practice-god-s-presence #simplicity #beauty

The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia! ↗

— Vera Wang

#arabia #ask #beach #funny #funny thing

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#dickens #everything #faulkner #how #john

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time. ↗

— Lalla Ward

#books #different #first #first time #i

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#jo-march #longing #lost-love #love #spoil

I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#father #hardy #i #lawrence #mother

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture. ↗

— David Amram

#artist #education #enormous #had #knowledge