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“It’s easy for people who have sacrificed nothing to rationalize their own ordinariness by calling me lucky. But I sacrificed my entire life; I sold it to the abyss. And the abyss gave me art.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“Because you could not master whatever enmeshed you
you became its slave -
You learned this bitterly, early. In order not to become its slave
you had to become its master.
You became its master.
Even as master, of course, you remain its slave.”
― Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
you became its slave -
You learned this bitterly, early. In order not to become its slave
you had to become its master.
You became its master.
Even as master, of course, you remain its slave.”
― Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
“God said: GOD MADE YOU. GOD DOES NOT CARE IF YOU ARE "GUILTY" OR NOT. I said: I CARE IF I AM GUILTY! I CARE IF I AM GUILTY!... God was silent. Everything was SILENT.”
― Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
― Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
“…Then, I said to myself:
'HISTORY IS HUMAN NATURE—;
TO SAY I AM GUILTY
IS TO ACCEPT IMPLICATION
IN THE HUMAN RACE. . .'
—Now, for months and months,
I have found
ANOTHER MAN in me—;
HE is NOT me—; I
am afraid of him …”
― Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
'HISTORY IS HUMAN NATURE—;
TO SAY I AM GUILTY
IS TO ACCEPT IMPLICATION
IN THE HUMAN RACE. . .'
—Now, for months and months,
I have found
ANOTHER MAN in me—;
HE is NOT me—; I
am afraid of him …”
― Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
“Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human”
― Chlorine
― Chlorine
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