Beckonings for Every Day


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Excerpt from Beckonings for Every Day: A Calendar of Thought Aiming, as its title suggests, to give some of the most awakening and inspiring words of the great and good in all ages, there are naturally many familiar passages; not a few, perhaps, which have appeared in other compilations; yet it is believed that the amount of fresh material hitherto unappropriated in this way is unusually large. The effort has been to enter into the spirit of modern thought and aspiration, and also to show how the best expressions of the best minds of ear lier and later times harmonize in the truth. Poet and philosopher and Christian thinker, speaking from their deepest insight, strike the same key note, and meet in one concord of eternal verities. And it is wonderful to see and to feel how all high thought converges, as the ray to the centre, in the highest Christian thought that of the Divine Humanity, the Presence of the Son of God in the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.







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Beckonings for Every Day


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The White Hills in Poetry


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As it is in Heaven


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Dailies & Rushes


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"The passion, playfulness, and regret in these wonderful poems will make many women think this book was written just for them." -- Susan Cheever "Susan Kinsolving's poems skate with a dark elegance on the thin ice between the upper air and a deepening sorrow, between the day's figures and memory's pattern. But she's headed towards love: the distant shore, the beckoning warmth; and by the end of Dailies & Rushes she has gotten herself -- and, to our delight and gratitude, brought us as well--triumphantly there." -- J. D. McClatchy "What rings with authenticity in Susan Kinsolving's poems is a lovely severity. . . . Sorrow and courage and pleasure register themselves in lucid distillations, like the purities of winter air." -- Anthony Hecht "'Things just are,' Susan Kinsolving writes, in a matter-of-fact tone that belies a fiery intensity. In her poetry, commonplace things are imbued with a magical aura. Her wry wit clarifies as it deepens a tragic vision." -- Grace Schulman "In her first major collection Susan Kinsolving shows herself to be a poet of ravenous amplitudes, of wit schooled by feeling, of observations had owed by memory, and of landscape rising to what she calls 'an oblique sublimity' which is also the hallmark of her art." -- Edward Hirsch