“Czeslaw Milosz, the Christian Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner, called the poet ‘the secretary of invisible things.’ Unlike Romantic theories of creation, he said the poet did not create things so much as discover things. The poet is a prober of reality, not its maker. And many of the most important things cannot be seen or touched.”

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Picture lifted from Dan’s site.

Fredrick Buechner

So true of my Dad. Happy Birthday, Dad. You are the best teacher I’ve ever had.

HT: Al Andrews

“I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.”

Frank Capra, Film Director

HT: Quotes For Writers

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.”

Winston Churchill

HT: Andrew Mackay

Also, Churchill knew something about beating monsters.

“The story we tell every Advent, like the story we tell every Sunday, is an old one. It is familiar like a children’s tune, like the moon. But it must be told again. We share the story of Advent every year at this time. We share it with the older generations as well as our children and grandchildren. We share it to remember whom we are waiting for. We share it to remind one another to wait with hope. We share it because it is worth sharing, worth repeating, worth telling. As familiar as the story is, it is still true. And one day, one of these Advents will be the last one.”

Thomas McKenzie, from Familiar as the Moon, posted at The Rabbit Room

Steve Brown

HT: TClair

N.T. Wright

G K Chesterton

HT: Sally Lloyd-Jones

Collect for the First Sunday of Advent by Thomas Cranmer, The Book of Common Prayer (1549)

HT: Thomas McKenzie

Peter Kreeft