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“Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.”
― Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
― Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
“There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.”
― A Spy in the House of Love
― A Spy in the House of Love
“That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone but herself and her mom...I know now that she forgives me for being dumb and scared and doing the dumb and scared thing. I know she forgives me, just as her mother forgives her.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical—the human world of violence and difference—and to reach the transcendent or divine. You're moved to write a poem, you feel called upon to sing, because of that transcendent impulse. But as soon as you move from that impulse to the actual poem, the song of the infinite is compromised by the finitude of its terms.”
― The Hatred of Poetry
― The Hatred of Poetry
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