"What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you."

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Source : Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.149, Wesleyan University Press

Antonio Machado

#Fundamentals Quotes #Poet Quotes

“It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.”
“Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.”
“The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.”
“Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.”
“Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.”

Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA
“When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.”
“What is it about men, anyway? You can't live with 'em and the law frowns on neutering them. It's not exactly a win-win situation.”

Source : Susan Andersen (2010). “Burning Up”, p.24, HQN Books
“Im not attracted to expensive things.”

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