4 Quotes & Sayings By Adriana Koulias

Adriana Koulias is an author, mother of two, and one of the most celebrated Greek-American writers. She is the author of five books of poetry, two books of essays, and two novels. She has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered, PBS's Poetry Now, and was featured in The New York Times Book Review. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Boston Globe, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The Huffington Post Read more

She is the recipient of the 2013 PEN/Hemingway Award for her first book of essays I Was a Stranger Here Myself (Belknap Press 2015), which was short-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. She also hosts O'Reilly Media's online new media program "The American Dyad."

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Is it not by learning to read the book of nature with the eyes of faith that we come to recognize the drop of divinity that resides in our own souls though hidden, master? In the end is this not faith; to seek the light that takes us further, the light of Christ that brings that to which reason and knowledge alone can never raise itself? This is truth! Adriana Koulias
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A voice called out after me, 'life takes us on many divergent paths, and yet we shall meet one more time! Not in the flesh, but in the sun, man's home Adriana Koulias
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The greatest riddle of all.... the riddle of man! The complex mystery of the universal human being as he stands wihtin the threshold of universal laws. This is the most fascinating puzzle! Adriana Koulias