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Owen R. O'Neill
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Poetry: What is it for?
I began the journey I’ve been documenting here in an attempt to unravel the history of an ancient war. The heart of that history is a poem. What this impressed upon me is that if the pen is mightier than the sword, poetry is more powerful than an army. That presented an imperative question: what… Continue reading...
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| I’ve been reading Ryleigh Sloan’s work for quite awhile now, and can honestly say, she just keeps getting better and better. April is a novella, but it’s amazing how much Ryleigh can get into a work that isn’t novel-length. This story has it all! Whi ...more | |
“She could have kissed him. She would have kissed him, except that she never could have made it mean enough.”
― The Morning Which Breaks
― The Morning Which Breaks
“You ordered an immediate withdrawal, sir. Am I to understand I have the liberty to countermand your orders in combat?”
― Asylum
― Asylum
“She was not unacquainted with these sudden shocking illuminations, but they were among those experiences which are ever-new—like love, orgasms, or barking your shin. You never really got used to them.
This one wasn’t the light that cleaves the darkness, the one bright shining truth that slashes through the murk and banishes all doubt, the divine radiance that heals all wounds before plodding Father Time gets his boots on. She had no faith in those counterfeit notions, though it wasn’t the thing itself that was false. It was the yearning for it—the yearning that must cleave to something (anything) because it was bright, not because it was true; that confused letting go with running away; that believed healing was the mere dead absence of pain.”
― Asylum
This one wasn’t the light that cleaves the darkness, the one bright shining truth that slashes through the murk and banishes all doubt, the divine radiance that heals all wounds before plodding Father Time gets his boots on. She had no faith in those counterfeit notions, though it wasn’t the thing itself that was false. It was the yearning for it—the yearning that must cleave to something (anything) because it was bright, not because it was true; that confused letting go with running away; that believed healing was the mere dead absence of pain.”
― Asylum
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ‘em, join ‘em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.”
― The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1
― The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1
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