Jane Kenyon Quotes

#1. Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.

Jean-Paul Marat

#2. If you want a different life, you gotta start doing and learning different things.

Jane Kenyon

#3. You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation
to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.

Ariel Sharon

#4. God does not bring two people together for the benefit of just one

Rosemary West

#5. The soul's bliss and suffering are bound together.

Jane Kenyon

#6. A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.

Jane Kenyon

#7. My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.

Jane Kenyon

#8. Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

Jane Kenyon

#9. The devil uses fear as means to control us, but God uses our faith to free us.

Kimberly Wright

#10. In the immortal words of Duke Vaughn, "If you don't have anything nice to say, take a big bite and chew slow.

Matthew FitzSimmons

#11. Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.

Jane Kenyon

#12. A long time ago individuals looked at life and saw that most people aren't happy. They saw this was obviously an inefficient system. So they combed the universe and found immeasurable happiness inside of us, our spirits.

Frederick Lenz

#13. I am the one whose love
overcomes you, already with you
when you think to call my name.

Jane Kenyon

#14. There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

Jane Kenyon

#15. The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.

Jane Kenyon

#16. If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.

Jane Kenyon

#17. Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.

Jane Kenyon