"Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend."

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Source : Stephen Burt (2009). “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry”, Graywolf Press

Stephen Burt

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“I'm a military man, I did what I did only because my country had to be saved from tribalism and feudalism. If I failed, it was only because I was betrayed. The so-called genocide was nothing more than just a war in defence of the revolution and a system from which all have benefited.”

Source : "Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators". Book by Riccardo Orizio, 2003.
“Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly uptill now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.”
“True love, to me, is when she's the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up, and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.”
“In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.”
“Physically stalking as opposed to Instagram stalking, which was kind of great. Leila [from Fifty Shades Darker ] puts my Insta stalking into perspective.”

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“Careerism is the determination to reign in hell rather than serve in heaven.”
“Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink with the large, round surprised eyes of all fish, in which we humans cannot read any expression of pain or suffering, so that, as with insects or mollusks, we feel absolved of their deaths.”
“Communism is not only a national belief but it implies the giving up of real property especially of landed property, and the Jews, being international, have never acquired the taste for real property. They prefer money, which is an instrument of power.”

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