Phillip Edwards

“We need to suggest the enemy within. We need enemies of the people we want their judges called enemies of the people we want their journalists called enemies of the people we want the people we decide to call enemies of the people called enemies of the people we want to say loudly over and over again on as many tv and radio shows as possible how they're silencing us. We need to say all the old stuff like it's new. We need news to be what we say it is. We need words to mean what we say they mean. We need to deny what we're saying while we're saying it. We need it not to matter what words mean.”
― Ali Smith, Spring

“What we give cannot be taken from us.”
― Anne Michaels, Held

“It is a sad farewell. You loved it all.
You dream that you might keep it in your head
But memories, where can you take them to?
Take one last look at them. They end with you.”
― Clive James, Sentenced to Life: Poems

“The whole world, if you wait long enough
Is full of falling.”
― Clive James, The River in the Sky