Pure Land Rebirth

Famous quotes containing the words pure, land and/or rebirth:

    “In this first heaven of knowing,
    The flesh takes on the pure poise of the spirit,”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    “croppers rotting shacks
    with famine, terror, flood, and plague near by;
    where sentiment and hatred still held sway
    and only bitter land was washed away.”
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    “We are constantly thinking of the great war ... which saved the Union ... but it was a war that did a great deal more than that. It created in this country what had never existed before—a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union, it was the rebirth of the Union.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)