“You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.”
"The Poet With His Face in His Hands"
New and Selected Poems, Volume 2 (2005)
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American writer 1935–2019Related quotes
“The world doesn't need any more sadness than it's already got.”
Stapel's own statement in De Volkskrant on 31 October 2011.
“I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear”
“Cry aloud to heaven for new souls.”
Open letter to the Masters of Dublin (1913)
Context: Cry aloud to heaven for new souls. The souls you have got cast upon the screens of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematographer.
You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation by your victory. The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow. The children will be taught to curse you. The infant being moulded in the womb will have breathed into its starved body the vitality of hate. It is not they — it is you who are the blind Samsons pulling down the pillars of the social order.
“Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?”
Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 361
