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“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
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“The Shell
The sea fills my ear
with sand and with fear.
You may wash out the sand,
but never the sound
of the ghost of the sea
that is haunting me.”
― The Mermaid's Purse: Poems by Ted Hughes
The sea fills my ear
with sand and with fear.
You may wash out the sand,
but never the sound
of the ghost of the sea
that is haunting me.”
― The Mermaid's Purse: Poems by Ted Hughes
“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
“Christ, it's embarrassing--I start thinking about this goddam poem I sent her when we first started goin' around together. `Rose my color is. and white, Pretty mouth and green my eyes.' Christ, it's embarrassing--it used to remind me of her. She doesn't have green eyes--she has eyes like goddam sea shells, for Chrissake.”
― Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
― Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
“Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive headfirst; he lets himself fall: thus speaks the immemorial language of gestures.”
― Slowness
― Slowness
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