Vern Rutsala quotes
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“They said daydreaming was against the law, but some of us escaped, slipping out windows and over cyclone fences, some of us flying away with heads like balloons. We taught our dogs to love the flavor of homework and became expert forgers of our parents’ signatures. We knew they were teaching us how to die but some of us said no in our stealthy and stubborn ways.”
-- Vern RutsalaSource : Vern Rutsala (2004). “A Handbook for Writers: New & Selected Prose Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)
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“The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect”
-- Vern Rutsala
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“Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.”
Source : She-Shanties (1926) "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight"
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“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
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Source : Adam Rapp (2010). “Punkzilla”, p.2, Candlewick Press
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.”
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Source : Abraham Cowley, Abraham Cowley, Etc, A. R. Waller (2014). “Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses”, p.377, Cambridge University Press
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