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James K. Baxter Quotes

New Zealand poet, Death: 22-10-1972
1.
But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.
James K. Baxter

2.
The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It is a crisis of powerlessness in which our sole recourse is to call on the help and inward power of the Holy Spirit.
James K. Baxter

3.
The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.
James K. Baxter