"Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage"

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Source : Don Paterson, Charles Simic (2004). “New British poetry”, Graywolf Pr

Don Paterson

#Shadow Quotes #Burning Quotes #World Quotes

“it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.”
“When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.”
“I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.”
“There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1926). “The Dark Dawn”, New York : Dodd, Mead
“When you sleep in your cloak there 's no lodging to pay.”

Source : George John Whyte-Melville (1871). “M. Or N.: "Similia Similibus Curantur."”, p.76
“If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.”
“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
“I'm not going to make it a target, but it's something to aim for.”

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