“I always say that a man with one language is like a man with one eye.”
Source: Novels, Lamb (1980), Ch.1 - p.8
"Port Harcourt Boy" (track 12)
I'm On Fire (2013)
“I always say that a man with one language is like a man with one eye.”
Source: Novels, Lamb (1980), Ch.1 - p.8
“The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights.”
Adverbs (2006), Soundly
“I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.”
Source: Solipsist
“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.”
―Charles Chaplin”
Variant: I like to walk in rain, so that nobody can see my tears.
Source: My Autobiography
Homage to the square' (1964), Oral history interview with Josef Albers' (1968)
Hooray For Hollywood http://www.zttaat.com/article.php?title=481 by Paul Simper at zttaat.com, Accessed May 2014.
Preguntaréis ¿por qué su poesía
no nos habla del sueño, de las hojas,
de los grandes volcanes de su país natal?<p>Venid a ver la sangre por las calles,
venid a ver
la sangre por las calles,
venid a ver la sangre
por las calles!
Explico Algunos Cosas (I'm Explaining a Few Things or I Explain a Few Things), Tercera Residencia (Third Residence), IV, stanza 9.
Alternate translation by Donald D. Walsh:
You will ask: why does your poetry
not speak to us of of sleep, of the leaves,
of the great volcanoes of your native land?<p>Come and se the blood in the streets,
come and see
the blood in the streets,
come and see the blood
in the streets!
Residencia en la Tierra (Residence on Earth) (1933)
“I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.”
Variant: I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.
“Like I told you, I'm not a magician," he says. "If something isn't working, I don't try to guess.”
Calev Ben-David, "A Life of the Mind," The Jerusalem Report, September 8, 1994, Pg. 46