Planes are my foxhole. I'm always on my knees in them. Patricia Hampl More Quotes by Patricia Hampl More Quotes From Patricia Hampl Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health, relies heavily on memory and on the ability to retrieve and organize images and events from the personal pastIf we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us—to write the first draft and then return for the second draft—we are doing the work of memory. Patricia Hampl writing memories moving We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of feeling. Patricia Hampl feelings may memories You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil. Patricia Hampl self secret trying landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated. Patricia Hampl landscape beloved stories French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts. Patricia Hampl dialect essentials missing poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception. Patricia Hampl voice poetry perception The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all. Patricia Hampl poetry humble hands Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself. Patricia Hampl placement position prayer Silence was the first prayer I learned to trust. Patricia Hampl silence prayer firsts I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell. Patricia Hampl ifs stories
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