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last updated: November 28, 2023

“Through silence only the good messages go unheard.”
-- Brian Patten

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“When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.”
-- Brian Patten

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“Death is the only grammatically correct full stop.”
-- Brian Patten

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“On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.”
-- Brian Patten

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“Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.277, Macmillan
“Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.”
“Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.”
“In the end itâ€™s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we donâ€™t.”
“I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.”
“Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message”
“I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.”
“A good message will always find a messenger.”

Source : Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.136, Litres
“The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct.”
“In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.”

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