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• In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of the human being, naked and facing the natural world, desperate to feel. I did not realize while reading Render how deeply I was handing everything over.

  Nikky Finney

  Reading, Dew, Naked

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• I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through.

  Djuna Barnes

  Bridges, Gaps, Potatoes

  Djuna Barnes (1996). “Collected Stories”, Sun and Moon Press

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• Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.

  Shana Alexander

  Moving, Light, Rome

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.

  Norman Mailer

  Sweet, Sex, Believe

  "Advertisements for Myself". Book by Norman Mailer, 1959.

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• It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Country, Winter, Sheep

  Fredrika Bremer (1863). “Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands”, p.213

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• If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Thanksgiving, Mad, Bird

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• To me, the process of writing is just reading what I've written and - like running your hand over one of those mod glass stovetops to find where the heat is - looking for where the energy is in the prose, then going in the direction of that. It's an exercise in being open to whatever is there.

  George Saunders

  Running, Reading, Writing

  The Missouri Review Interview, www.missourireview.com. June 1, 2001.

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• When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.

  Pete Seeger

  Mirrors, House, Tree

  Source: portside.org

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• Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, like a stalk of corn athrob and aglisten in the heat. Lie like a mare panting with the dancing feet of colts against her sides. Sleep at night as the spring earth. Walk heavily as a wheat stalk at its full time bending towards the earth waiting for the reaper. Let your life swell downward so you become like a vase, a vessel. Let the unknown child knock and knock against you and rise like a dolphin within.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Wise, Dream, Children

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• The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy , or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light , electricity , and all other physical phenomena.

  William John Macquorn Rankine

  Light, Law, Special

  William John Macquorn Rankine (1869). “A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine”, p.32

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• Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones out of our minds come nitrogen, heat, and very fertile soil. Out of this fertile soil bloom our poems and stories. But this does not come all at once. It takes time. Continue to turn over and over the organic details of your life until some of them fall through the garbage of discursive thoughts to the solid ground of black soil.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Coffee, Fall, Black

  "Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within". Book by Natalie Goldberg, 1986.

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• A lukewarm heart cannot perform boiling hot worship! Heat up our hearts for God and the temperature of our worship will increase!

  Lamar Boschman

  Heart, Hot, Temperature

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• Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

  Margaret Halsey

  Father, Sleep, Sound

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• Luckily I had just finished a Marvel film so I was already in a training mentality and then this movie happened and I was really just trying to focus on like as much cardio as possible because in this film I do a lot of running and a lot of running in 100 degree heat in Austinit was like a sprintit was very much like all one shot running around, sprinting. So I had to build up my cardio to be able to get to that place and also not to like, die.

  Cobie Smulders

  Running, Focus, Training

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• The whole Miami Heat team is my least my favorite athlete. Why? Because they keep beating my Pacers.

  Mike Epps

  Team, Athlete, Miami Heat

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast; it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat.

  Samuel Johnson

  Stars, Distance, Greatness

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.217, Harvard University Press

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• The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.

  Theodore Parker

  Dark, Men, Civilization

  Theodore Parker “The Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”

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• As in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow,Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear.

  Robert Southwell

  Heart, Eye, Winter

  "The Burning Babe" l. 1 (ca. 1590)

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• If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational, Hurt, Life Lesson

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• The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth.

  John Burroughs

  Men, Years, Wind

  John Burroughs (2008). “Under the Apple-Trees”, p.308, Wildside Press LLC

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• In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Angel, Rocks, Anchors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.130

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• Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
  Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
  Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
  Say, is not absence death to those who love?

  Alexander Pope

  Missing You, Summer, Goodbye

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.172

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• I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min

  Samuel Johnson

  Crucible, Body, Limits

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• Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

  George Eliot

  Motherhood, Force, All Things

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.224

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• RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Giving, Fool

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2492, Delphi Classics

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