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It is a hollow promise I make to myself, one that I fear I shall break a thousand times before learning how to keep it.
“Now, In June, When the night is a vast softness Filled with blue stars, And broken shafts of moon-glimmer Fall upon the earth, Am I too old to see the fairies dance? I cannot find them any more.”
― The Weary Blues
― The Weary Blues
“Hour by hour the caissons reach down to the rock of the earth and hold the building to a turning planet.”
― Chicago Poems
― Chicago Poems
“Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:”
― Chicago Poems
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:”
― Chicago Poems
“Had she really understood then that those were the best of times? That she was in heaven? She thinks she did understand, yes. Understood she had been given a great gift. Doing the crossword in a train carriage, Stephen with a can of beer ("I will only drink beer on trains, nowhere else, don't ask me why"), glasses halfway down his nose, reading out clues. The real secret was that when they looked at each other, they each thought they had the better deal.”
― The Last Devil to Die
― The Last Devil to Die
“Patience and Silence had one beautiful daughter. And her name was Vengeance.”
― Gemina
― Gemina
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