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“Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

“Poetry is a beacon slicer.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

“I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree, when I revel in the nonsense of its being my own Grandfather, a letter from yesterday, or a masturbating fist.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

“Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

“Nothing forces us to know
What we do not want to know
Except pain”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either - Or

“Sincerity is the defence of every misanthrope.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

“The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions”
― Bill Hicks

“I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
― Marcel Duchamp