"I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me."

-- Edith SÃ¶dergran

“Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.”
“All night, my face next to your mouth, I hold my breath, listening to yours.”

Source : Imtiaz Dharker (2007). “The Terrorist at My Table”, p.156, Penguin Books India
“Curves are so emotional.”
“And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (â€œThe Testimony of the Sunsâ€)”

Source : George Sterling, “The Testimony Of The Suns”
“Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a creed or set of opinions or convictions or to make people act as we want them to act, the means employed are called propaganda.”
“The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears death calling. With all his heart he wants to come close to some other human, touch someone with his hands, be touched by the hand of another.”
“[I]t's not the advertising, it's the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick of it, they don't like it.”
“I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows, and I'll never really be able to leave for good until I find it. And I don't want to look for it, because I might find it and have to leave." - from a letter to his mother Helen Pancake that Breece wrote in Charlottesville, where he was studying writing.”

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