Jericho Brown famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more every day, the thinking American asks how she is to believe in love when there is war all about her, and in each of her deeply felt lyrics, Elyse Fenton confronts this question with the kind of tenderness one lover reserves for another. If every poem is indeed a love poem,Clamor is indeed a debut worth reading and about which we must make noise.
-- Jericho Brown
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You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.
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Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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I hope it won't take long.
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We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
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Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.
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Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.
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