
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos

"A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt."

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

"A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."

"That afternoon the muzhiki sent a delegation to deliver an ultimatum: five thousand rubles by morning or suffer a pogrom."

"I would sit in front of the class and pretend to have answers to their questions about geometry, history, science, etc."

"Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived."

"something is always burning, / london, paris, detroit, l.a., the neighbor- / hoods no one outside seems to see until / they're backlit by flames…"

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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More

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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More


"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More