"What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesnâ€™t â€˜soothe.â€™"

-- Jorie Graham

“The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.”
“Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In 1858, the day after Jock was buried (with almost nobody present to mourn him except his shaggy dog) in the churchyard at Greyfriars Abbey in Edinburgh, Bobby was found sleeping on his master's grave, where he continued to sleep every night for fourteen years.”

Source : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1998). “Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs”, Broadway Books
“The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.”
“The irony is that I don't think we took a step backwards to make 'Group Therapy'. I think we took a step forward because it's a lot more complicated to make that kind of album. I think that album was far more produced than 'American Apathy', and it had a lot more harmony vocals and lots of intricate parts musically speaking.”
“As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.”
“The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife. But mine is a relationship with a stranger... with the chance acquaintance.”
“Hamas, they are using civilians' lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their goals. And this is what I hate.”
“I've been blessed. God's looked out for me, so, I'm happy.”

Source : "Redskins' Taylor Dies Day After Shooting" by Joseph White, www.foxnews.com. November 27, 2007.

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