"Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup."

-- Jennifer Grotz

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“What's the go of that? What's the particular go of that?”
“I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to myself and reflect. That past, entrenched in time, motionless and infinite, has vanished onto thin air. None of it remains. Why, therefore, am I hurting so much? Why did I bring back with me this nameless pain? I followed the path I set for myself, and I have forgiven. I do not want to be chained to hatred or resentment. I want to have the right to live in peace.”

Source : Ingrid Betancourt (2010). “Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle”, p.62, Hachette UK
“Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.”
“All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most - shall we call her her master - Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul.... In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.”
“Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.”
“What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.”
“Official truths are often powerful illusions.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?”

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