"Like all planets, I turn in my sleep, Iâ€™ve been doing it since before I was born. My body is a nightmare it hurts me every day. Iâ€™ve been taught to resent it by boys trying to forge themselves righteous through conquering. They knew there was something wrong with me, it was explained through hands that spoke only in exclamation points."

-- Brian Ellis

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“Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.”
“At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.”
“If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.”
“If we had complete knowledge, you wouldn't need any intelligence gathering whatsoever. The president isn't god. We do have intelligence gathering.”
“Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.”

Source : Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.
“You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.”
“I'm constantly at war with myself to quit goofing around, and the internet hasn't helped that any. I've learned that I have to be sort of exploitive about seizing moments to write. Luckily, I still write most of my first drafts by hand, so I often work in bed when I can't sleep.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Come back to the heartbeat, the pulse, the rhythm we all walk to, regardless of nation or color. Come back to the breath - inhale, take the world deep into your lungs; exhale, give yourself back fully. This is what the body says: release the peace that lives within your skin.”

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