“Poetry acknowledges that life is much more complicated than anything we can say about it, and especially anything politics can say about it.”
― Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America
― Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America
“Be patient. Your future will soon come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“I know this because we Ohioans always know if someone is from here, no matter how tenuous the connection. It is a habit of humble places. If you mention”
― Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America
― Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America
“Authenticity—that overplayed and elusive concept—is one resource that the postindustrial Midwest has in spades.”
― Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America
― Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America
“Why does the nation turn to Ohio every four years to understand itself? Because all our struggles and all our scars and all our little bandstands and diners and neat little lawns have withstood fortunes and failures and promises and lies, quietly proving Robert Frost’s three-word definition of life: it goes on.”
― Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America
― Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America
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