"The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it."

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Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.82, Wave Books

Mary Ruefle

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“Our media, which is very open and report on really everything, tend to exaggerate the crime issue...This is why one gets the impression that we have much more crime than other countries.”
“I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.”

Source : "Patrick Swayze on Cancer: 'I Want to Last Until They Find a Cure'" by Katie N. Thomson, Rob Wallace, abcnews.go.com. January 6, 2008.
“i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life. i like relaxing at the house, reading quietly, taking in the sweet smell that comes from the pots, sitting around a table with the family and taking out my wife and children. when you can no longer enjoy these simple pleasures something valuable is taken away from your life and you feel it in your daily work.”
“Whenever the circus would come to town, I would tell Ethan all kinds of kinky clown domination stories involving the leather clown, like the time she forced me to have sex with her in the little car, or the time she kept spraying me with the seltzer bottle until I obeyed her every command. Ethan and I would laugh and laugh at these tall tales, but I could tell deep down, he was wondering whether the leather clown was really real or not. And I would let him wonder.”

Source : "Song: 'Leather Clown' ('They')". 1988.
“I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.”
“If in the past, you didnt cry out when thousands of protestors were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when more victims than ever were hanged by Iran, women and children in Afghanistan were bombed, whole communities were massacred in South Sudan, 1800 Palestinians were starved and murdered by Assad in Syria, hundreds in Pakistan were killed by jihadist terrorist attacks, 10,000 Iraqis were killed by terrorists, villagers were slaughtered in Nigeria, but you ONLY cry out for Gaza, then you are NOT Pro- Human Rights, you are only Anti-Israel.”
“What would happen if we spoke the truth?”

Source : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog.”

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