
“I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.”
Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
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“I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.”
Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
“For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
Sun Stone (1957)
Context: I want to go on, to go beyond; I cannot;
the moment scatters itself in many things,
I have slept the dreams of the stone that never dreams
and deep among the dreams of years like stones
have heard the singing of my imprisoned blood,
with a premonition of light the sea sang,
and one by one the barriers give way,
all of the gates have fallen to decay,
the sun has forced an entrance through my forehead,
has opened my eyelids at last that were kept closed,
unfastened my being of its swaddling clothes,
has rooted me out of my self, and separated
me from my animal sleep centuries of stone
and the magic of reflections resurrects
willow of crystal, a poplar of water,
a pillar of fountain by the wind drawn over,
tree that is firmly rooted and that dances,
turning course of a river that goes curving,
advances and retreats, goes roundabout,
arriving forever:
Quoted in Closest person we have to Martin Luther King Jr.: Pastor-activist William J. Barber wins $625,000 ‘genius’ grant https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2018/10/05/closest-person-we-have-martin-luther-king-jr-pastor-activist-william-j-barber-wins-genius-grant/, Washington Post, (5 October 2018)
Press conference at Conservative Central Office (20 March 1978), quoted in The Times (21 March 1978), p. 2
Later life