One student formulates good writing as emptiness or vesselhood: the writer becomes a channel for divine content instead of merely performing technique.
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Vessel
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"I think good writers are willing to kind of be a vessel for God's things. So, you are very empty on the inside. It's..."
"...be illuminated by it okay so you're trying to create this vessel um but we have free will so we can do whatever we..."
"...fire and so the poet um um is convinced that this vessel that this weapon he's created is actually for good reasons and so..."
"...followed him as king, then valor might have been poured from vessel into vessel. One cannot say this of his other heirs. His kingdoms..."
"...and no. And there the humble psalmist went before the sacred vessel, dancing, lifting up his rope. He was both less and more than..."
"vessel may be so here from time to time to ease his torments some sinners showed his back above the surface then hit more..."
"...just said before he answered frakomita of golura who was a vessel fit for every fraud he had his master's enemies in hand but..."
"...one, the course across more kindly waters. Now, my talents, little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea. So cool. And what..."
"...singing and that's what a poet is a poet is a vessel for the divine fire okay so if virgil knows this truth but..."
"...new treachery that weighs so heavily that it will bring the vessel to ship. There were the Raveniani, from whose line Count Guido comes,..."
"...case, maybe it was her faith, her willingness to be a vessel for God that has showed her from the initial sin."
"...to bring his victory into the papal mantle. Later, the chosen vessel traveled there to bring us back assurance of that faith with which..."
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