"I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world."

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Lucie Brock-Broido

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“[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anÃ¦sthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.”
“You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.”
“I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.”
“I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.”
“Life is just a lie with an 'F' in it, and death is definite”
“I thought, â€œI want to die. I want to die more than ever before. Thereâ€™s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, itâ€™s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leavesâ€”it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.”
“In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.”
“I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.”

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