"Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth."

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Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Günter Brus, Monika Faber, Actar, 2005.

Gunter Brus

#Poetry Is Quotes

“Even if you find yourself in a heated exchange with your toddler, it is better for your child to feel the heat rather than for himto feel you withdraw emotionally.... Active and emotional involvement between parent and child helps the child make the limits a part of himself.”
“I'm a Jehovah's Witness.”
“To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.”
“My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.”
“I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.”
“A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar.”
“If people are not sharing their faith in your church, if they're not having a quiet time, if they're not living godly lives, then you need to change your style of preaching. You are obviously not seeing lives changed through the Word of God. So what is the problem? The problem isn't the Word. The problem is your preaching style.”
“As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon's address to the Negroes in the state of New York, 1787.

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