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Here's another title I found in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. Combining "the didactic and the euphoric" (writes literary editor Daniel Soar), The Fruits Of The Earth mixes prose and poetry. It's really quite beautiful, full of passages that can truly speak to the heart.



"Let your waiting be not even longing, but simply a welcoming. Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. Long only for what you have."

"Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon."