"I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love."

-- Laurie Anderson

#Believe Quotes #Purpose Quotes #I Believe Quotes

“My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.”
“Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.”

Source : "Push, Push Against the Darkness: An Interview with Anne Waldman on The Iovis Trilogy". Interview with Jim Cohn, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.
“Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.”
“The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion.”

Source : "The Logic of Suicide Terrorism". Interview with Scott McConnell, www.globalpolicy.org. July 18, 2005.
“I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.”
“The easy way out is often just that-the 'easy' way out of the most rewarding lifestyle.”
“I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.”
“When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream.”

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