"For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him."

-- HalldÃ³r Laxness

#Men Quotes #Grieving Quotes #And Love Quotes

“My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.”
“But all of this success came at the end of a long climb.”
“You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder.”
“It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snows greenhouse. I grab the vase, stumble down to the kitchen, and throw its contents into the embers. As the flowers flare up, a burst of blue flame envelops the rose and devours it. Fire beats roses again.”
“And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters”
“My head translates emotions into song. Songwriting is cathartic for me.”

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“So there I was lying in the gutter. A man stopped and asked '"What's the matter? Did you fall over?" So I said "No. I've a bar of toffee in my back pocket and I was just trying to break it."”
“I am well aware that a chef is only as good as his last meal.”

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