Mary Jo Bang quotes
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“To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.”
-- Mary Jo BangSource : Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr
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“A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.”
-- Mary Jo BangSource : Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr
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“Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.”
-- Mary Jo BangSource : Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr
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“You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.”
-- Mary Jo BangSource : Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr
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“The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.”
-- Mary Jo BangSource : Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr
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“I say every dog looks like no other but that isn't true. Not entirely. Difference is slippery.”
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“What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth”
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“Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who say, but Walter Benjamin who said, 'Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness, with the base and the banal.' In September, 1940, Benjamin died under ambiguous circumstances in the French-Spanish border town of Portbou, while attempting to flee the Nazis.”
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“And now the question: what do we do with the longing for what can destroy us?”
-- Mary Jo Bang
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Source : "Notebook of a Return to the Native Land". Book by Aime Cesaire, 1939.
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“To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.”
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“You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.”
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“This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.”
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“It is tragic for our God, Who gave us His Son to die on the cross, to beg us to love Him.”
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