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It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.
Emily Carr
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Emily Carr
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: December 13
Died: 1945
Died: March 2
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M. Emily Carr
Emily M. Carr
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
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The house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to cozy them down. Objects that swore at each other when the movers heaved them into the new rooms have subsided into corners and sit to lick their feet and wash their faces like cats accepting a new home.
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It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.
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The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
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Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.
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