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“Everyone in me is a bird
I am beating all my wings”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Source: Love Poems
“I like you; your eyes are full of language."
[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964. ]”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
“As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
"For My Lover, Returning to His Wife"
Love Poems (1969)
“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
“I know that I have died before—once in November.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
“Only my books anoint me,
and a few friends,
those who reach into my veins.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Source: The Complete Poems
“I am a collection of dismantled almosts.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
“God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
"The Poet's Story," January 1, 1972 entry
A Small Journal (1974)
“Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953–2001) Afghan military leader
Meeting with European legislators http://www.afghanistannewscenter.com/news/2000/june/jun23i2000.html (11 June 2000).
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Introduction to Treasury of the Free World (1946)
Source: Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
Context: An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.
“It is characteristic of the technocracy to render itself invisible.”
Theodore Roszak (1933–2011) American social historian, social critic, writer
Its assumptions about reality and its values become as unobtrusively pervasive as the air we breathe. ...the technocracy increases and consolidates its power... following the dictates of industrial efficiency, rationality, and necessity. ...the technocracy assumes a position similar to that of the purely neutral umpire in an athletic contest. ...we tend to ignore the man ...Yet ...he alone sets the limits and goals of the competition and judges the contenders.
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
page 103.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)