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“I was born with my eyes turned inward.”
David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems
“Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.”
David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems
“Poetry is a beacon slicer.”
David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems
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“I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree, when I revel in the nonsense of its being my own Grandfather, a letter from yesterday, or a masturbating fist.”
David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems
“Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.”
David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems
“Freedom of speech is not only the right to say as you please, it is also the right to have what you say contested, and where it does not accord with reason - refuted, or with sense - ridiculed.”
David Joseph Cribbin, father crow
“Sincerity is the defence of every misanthrope.”
David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems
“A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.”
David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

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