“The ear of Faith is, I suggest, the ear of one who keeps faith with the agitation and the peace, and who, through the sacrament of his body, experiences their union. The ear of Faith is, to my hearing, neither deaf nor slavish. It does not falsify, nor does it reduce the tidings to explanation. If it aspires to convey what it hears, it re-composes.”

-M.C. Richards, Centering in Pottery, Poetry and the Person, p. 117