Mount Gilead Community

Famous quotes containing the words mount, gilead and/or community:

“On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole
There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sinsick soul.”
—African-American hymn-writer. “There Is a Balm in Gilead,” l. 1-2.

“Fortunately art is a community effort—a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)