“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”— Mary Oliver Related Quotes “The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.”— Drew Gilpin Faust “There is something distinguished about even his failures they sink not trivially but with a certain air of majesty like a great ship its flags flying full of holes.”— George Jean Nathan “Failure is success in abeyance”—