“Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy?
She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.”
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) poet, novelist, illustrator, performer
"My Muse"
Selected Poems (1962)
“Angels listen when she speaks:
She ’s my delight, all mankind’s wonder;
But my jealous heart would break
Should we live one day asunder.”
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She ’s my delight, all mankind’s wonder;
But my jealous heart would break
Should we l…" by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester?
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Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
Bono: The Rolling Stone Interview (2017)
Context: [On the persecutions of Rohingya in Myanmar, and Aung San Suu Kyi's lack of response to them] That is very hard, and I'm – I feel kind of nauseous about that. I have genuinely felt ill, because I can't quite believe what the evidence all points to. But there is ethnic cleansing. It really is happening, and she has to step down because she knows it's happening. I am sure she has many great reasons in her head why she is not stepping down. Maybe it's that she doesn't want to lose the country back to the military. But she already has, if the pictures are what we go by, anyway. The human rights that are being torched, the lives that are being burned out in Rakhine State are more important than a unity without them. … She should, at the very least, be speaking out more. And if people don't listen, then resign. This is all just really troubling. I am still confounded by it, actually. I am still confounded by it, actually. … Is it that we project onto people who we want them to be? We find somebody we like, and we tell ourselves that a person exists that is better than us. More able than us. A truer moral compass than us. We imbue them with all these qualities. We do that with people. I think I have had it done to me. People have their version of you, they project what they want to see on you. Maybe she was always a politician. She was not a saint. She was not some sort of savior. Maybe we were always wrong, and we just have to accept we were wrong. Or maybe something terrible has happened to her that we just don't know.
