Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
ROBERTO BOLANOPoetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
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Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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I’d obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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