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Mother Mary Madeleva
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“Afraid? Of you, strong proxy lover, you, God's sea? / I give you my small self ecstatically, / To be caught, held, or buffeted; to rest / Heart to your heart, and breast to breathing breast ...”
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“The feet of Christ are set in human places ...”
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“Winds are birds; snow is a feather; / Wild white swans are wind and weather.”
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“My love has made a room for me / That looks upon eternity.”
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“... I am speech / beyond words' lettered reach ...”
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“How old am I? / As days are told, / The earth is younger / than I am old.”
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“More than half the people in the world are spiritual orphans. They do not know where they came from or where they are going.”
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“... I lived with the mental restlessness of wanting to write, the inner nauseas of the half-finished, the great releases of the completed poem.”
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“All poets chew cuds.”
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“I like to go to Marshall Field's in Chicago just to see how many things there are in the world that I do not want.”
Mother Mary Madeleva, U.S. medievalist, writer, college president
(1887 - 1964)
Full name: Sister Mary Evaline Wolff Madeleva.