"The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act."

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Don Paterson

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“Jesus Christ will be the leader of an intergalactic earth evacuation. We're getting some earth leaders up there to check the mother ship. The Bible says that the sky will be glorious and Christ will come back to us all.”
“It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.”
“At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.”

Source : James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf
“In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.”
“Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.”
“You volunteering to play Big Gulp? ~Wraith”
“I think the reason that a lot of people have to have a lot of people around is just about being smart and knowing what you want to talk about.”
“It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.”

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