“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”
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American author and poet 1928–2014Related quotes
“Sliding through the city with no safety on.”
Darrell Edward Brooks (1982) American rapper and suspect of 2021 Waukesha parade attack
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Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
No way, 'cause it'll go straight through that as well. They'll be dead, in other words.
Quoted in * 2002-09-23
The Left and 9/11
Adam
Shatz
The Nation
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2000s, 2002
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet
At leve er — krig med trolde<br>i hjertets og hjernens hvælv.<br>At digte, — det er at holde<br>dommedag over sig selv. <br class="br">Et vers (A Verse), inscribed on the volume Poems (1877) <br class="br">Ibsen may have written this originally in German http://www.ibsen.net/index.gan?id=110602&subid=0 as a dedication to a female reader. It was published in German in Deutsche Rundschau in November 1886:<br>Leben, das heisst bekriegen<br>In Herz und Hirn die Gewalten;<br>Und dichten; über sich selber<br>Den Gerichtstag halten.
“So limp of brain that for them to conceive an idea is to risk a haemorrhage.”
Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 2 (p. 403)
“As the parish goes, so goes the faith of the people.”
Anthony Pilla (1932) auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland, titular Bishop of Scardona, Bishop of Cleveland
from Vibrant Parish Life http://web.archive.org/web/20020826224835/http://www.dioceseofcleveland.org/vibrantparishlife/vpl_initiative.html, a pastoral letter published in 2001.