"I myself am hell; nobody's here"

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Source : 'Skunk Hour' (1959) st. 5

Robert Lowell

“Sometimes, we are dealing with our own troubles and feel that we don't have the resources to help one another. Or simply, we just don't know what to do.”

Source : "Why Wait For A Crisis To Give?" by Joy Bryant, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2009.
“I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied”
“When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from CÃ©zanne through the 1950s.”

Source : Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.
“I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.”

Source : Kingsley Martin (1960). “Critic's London diary: from the New statesman, 1931-1956”
“35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.”
“Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”

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