"That's what poems are for, unlivable love."

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Source : Tess Gallagher (2006). “Dear Ghosts,: Poems”, Graywolf Press

Tess Gallagher

“My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.”
“The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to improve and beautify their grounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from that disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.”
“I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.”
“It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.”
“Anything we love can be saved.”
“Oh, poverty parts good company.”
“Poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition.”
“The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal's gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.”

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