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Having read two of these stories in classes and knowing the nature of the stories and what kind of life they came from, I picked up this book the weekend after the passing of my best friend, who, unlike Johnson, died from his addictions. I wanted to
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“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
― Eros the Bittersweet
― Eros the Bittersweet
“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
“True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.”
― Illuminations
― Illuminations
“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance.”
― Complete Works
― Complete Works
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.”
― Complete Works
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.”
― Complete Works
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