“68. By then all poets will live in artistic communities calls jails or asylums. 69. Our imaginary home, the home we share. ”
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“Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover. ”
― The Crying of Lot 49
― The Crying of Lot 49
“a spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.”
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“54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta Parra; torn apart, forgotten, in mass graves, at the bottom of the sea, the Trojan destiny of their mingled bones terrifying the survivors. ”
― Last Evenings on Earth
― Last Evenings on Earth
“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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