"I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel..."

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Dashiell Hammett

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“I've approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus.”
“Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.”
“In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being created, just like the world around us, never predictable, always shifting and intertwining, reflecting and echoing itself.”

Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.
“Naysayers have little power over us - unless we give it to them.”
“She smiled. "I need your opinion," she said. "What do you think about something sleeveless for this weekend? With a cinched waist and a medium train?" I brought my hand to my chin and considered this. "Sounds okay," I said. "But I think I'd look better in a tuxedo.”
“Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.”
“Gansey studied Adam's erratic handwriting. His letters always looked like they were running from something.”
“A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose.”

Source : Paul Celan (1972). “Selected poems”, Penguin Books Ltd

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