Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it. - Denise Levertov

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We must do what we can to reduce, not increase, tensions. We must do what we can to present only the facts as we know them, not as we imagine them to be. We must learn to live with crisis in an age which calls for cool heads and accurate appraisals.

Denise Levertov

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

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Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

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