"The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real."

-- George W. Bush

#Real Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.”
“Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.”
“On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.”
“The point of Berlin was that it seemed that only people like you ran the city. You never ran into people who weren't like you - especially when you lived as that kind of American in Berlin connected to the arts.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.
“The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our countryâ€™s dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australiaâ€™s art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.”
“If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.”
“Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul.”
“A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping.”

Source : Marianne Boruch (2017). “The Little Death of Self: Nine Essays Toward Poetry”, p.54, University of Michigan Press

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