Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
James Martineau
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. -
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