"Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral."

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Ron Padgett

#Mean Quotes #Funeral Quotes #Poet Quotes

“When I lived in Jamaican I lived in Kingston, in Spanish Town, and when I go there the only place I want to go is Kingston because that's where the culture is the richest.”

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“Writing does not resurrect. It buries.”
“Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.”
“I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.”
“Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.”
“I always walk around with a few moves in my pocket. You never know when you may need to bust one out.”
“We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.”
“But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.”

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