"We are the ghosts of the singing furies ."

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Source : Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

Conrad Aiken

#Singing Quotes #Ghost Quotes #Fury Quotes

“Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.”
“Looking good Matt, you look like a money.”
“If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.”
“It can be argued that rapists deserve to be raped, that mutilators deserve to be mutilated. Most societies, however, refrain from responding in this way because the punishment is not only degrading to those on whom it is imposed, but it is also degrading to the society that engages in the same behavior as the criminals.”
“I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.”
“It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had.”
“Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss. We are looking for ways our stories fit together.”
“I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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