Reginald Shepherd quotes
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“I don’t trust beauty anymore / when will I stop believing it?”
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“Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?”
-- Reginald ShepherdSource : Reginald Shepherd (2007). “Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry”
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“I don’t trust beauty anymore / when will I stop believing it?”
-- Reginald ShepherdSource : Reginald Shepherd (1996). “Angel, Interrupted”
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“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”
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Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989
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“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan
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