"If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black."

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Source : Bill Knott (1968). “The Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans”

Bill Knott

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“So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power.”
“Just as the children of Israel were directed by God to depart from the land of their oppression with its tyrannical monarch, cross a great sea, and establish a new nation, so, too, the children of Great Britain were led by God to leave the land of their religious oppression, cross a great ocean, inhabit a promised land, and, eventually, resist a "tyrannical" George III and create a new nation in "God's American Israel."”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“So how do you best respond when mental or emotional challenges confront you or those you love? Above all, never lose faith in your Father in Heaven, who loves you more than you can comprehend. ... Never, ever doubt that, and never harden your heart.”
“I have not been sent to curse people, but as a mercy to all mankind.”
“Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.”
“You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.”
“That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.”
“Intention is not something you do, but rather a force that exists in the universe as an invisible field of energy, a power that can carry us.”

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