"And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will."

-- Ezra Pound

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“I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to.”

Source : "Asafa Powell says it is time to step out of Usain Bolt's shadow". Interview With Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2011.
“The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.”
“The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's. I'm on the expensive shutters of the health food store. I'm massive on Handie's furniture shop, King's Chicken Joint and the Barbecue Cafe. I thread the pavement outside the bank and all the way to Mothercare. I've possessed the road and am a glistening circle at the roundabout.”
“Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors.”
“I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.”
“I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”
“Im 48 now and I would like to have another baby. I would love to because of all the things I have learned. It would be like starting all over again. But am I too old? Im young at heart and I would be different this time round.”
“Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead.”

Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

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