"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect"

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Source : Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.

Paul Muldoon

#Want Quotes #Chimes Quotes

“The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.”
“You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost, even though the costs almost inevitably end up being orders of magnitude larger than anybody projected at the outcome. But when you have a discussion about whether or not we can assist people who are suffering, then suddenly we come very, you know, cost-conscious.”

Source : Conversation with Bill Moyers, June 20, 2014.
“Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?”
“No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.”
“The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.”

Source : Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press
“[Playing] the bad guys tend to be fascinating. Figuring out what makes them do the things they do is what interests me.”
“The Regime has become so smug it can't tell the difference among the revolutionary, the innovative, or the merely various. The high command knows so little about the outside that if I came back with a fully equipped chemical laboratory and told them I'd found it in a cave, they'd probably believe that, so long as I brought it back peicmeal in my saddle bags, thus proving I hadn't known it was there beforehand.”
“I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.”

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