Quote #80

I have made a fiasco of my life, but I have had the right material to work with.

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  1. I am deeply opposed to violence in all its forms, and yet I myself am violent in spirit, in my quarrel with the unbeatable: myself, my daem…
  2. Go ahead. Fire your feeble guns. You won't kill anything. There will always be poets in the world.
  3. In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
  4. I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.
  5. I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.
  6. I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
  7. Poetry must be read to be poetry. It may be that one reader is all that I deserve. If this is so, I want that reader to be you.
  8. There is only good and bad art.

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