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“[E]ven the most faithful man is in some sense passive, for a man receives grace and cannot make his own fortune altogether. It is in grace that one lives, or in hell—hell being, for a man of faith, that place, or those days, when the presence of God is withdrawn.”
— Mary Oliver, “The Poem as Prayer, the Prayer as Ornament: Gerard Manley Hopkins,” Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
