"Everything I can't see / is at least as real as what I can."

--

Source : Stephen Dunn (2010). “Different Hours: Poems”, p.87, W. W. Norton & Company

Stephen Dunn

“If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.”
“There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.”
“My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.”

Source : "Joanna Lumley: Animals Are Just Like Us". Interview with Dan Mathews, www.peta.org. December 6, 2010.
“Relationships are about helping motivate each other to be all that you can be”
“The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.”
“The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.”
“The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.”
“I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.”

You may also like: