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“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Your voice at times a fist
Tight in your throat
Jabs ceaselessly at phantoms
In the room,
Your hand a carved and
Skimming boat
Goes down the Nile
To point out Pharaoh's tomb.
You're Africa to me
At brightest dawn.
The Congo's green and
Copper's brackish hue,
A continent to build
With Black Man's brawn.
I sit at home and see it all
Through you.”
― The Complete Collected Poems
Tight in your throat
Jabs ceaselessly at phantoms
In the room,
Your hand a carved and
Skimming boat
Goes down the Nile
To point out Pharaoh's tomb.
You're Africa to me
At brightest dawn.
The Congo's green and
Copper's brackish hue,
A continent to build
With Black Man's brawn.
I sit at home and see it all
Through you.”
― The Complete Collected Poems
“I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me before.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the colored canvas, reveals himself.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“some men never
die
and some men never
live
but we're all alive
tonight.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
die
and some men never
live
but we're all alive
tonight.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Asmara’s 2025 Year in Books
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