"You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away."

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Source : Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

Mary Jo Bang

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“Try and identify where the money can go to create conditions for true systemic change.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“Wherever a ray of solar light can reach, man can reach.”
“I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.”
“The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?”

Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.
“People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.”
“What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can”
“I probably have to move out of New York. I just canâ€™t live in New York anymore.”
“Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.”

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