All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
SAMUEL BECKETTFail, fail again, fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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