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In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.


James Schuyler


#apt #author #because #comment #consider

I told her stories. They were only a sentence long, each one of them. That’s all I knew how to find. So I told her broken stories. The little pieces of broken stories I could find. I told her what I could. I told her that the Global Alliance had issued more warnings about the possibility of total war if their demands were not met. I told her that the Emperor Nero, from Rome, had a giant sea built where he could keep sea monsters and have naval battles staged for him. I told her that there had been rioting in malls all over America, and that no one knew why. I told her that the red-suited Santa Claus we know — the regular one? — was popularized by the Coca-Cola Company in the 1930s. I told her that the White House had not confirmed or denied reports that extensive bombing had started in major cities in South America. I told her, “There’s an ancient saying in Japan, that life is like walking from one side of infinite darkness to another, on a bridge of dreams. They say that we’re all crossing the bridge of dreams together. That there’s nothing more than that. Just us, on the bridge of dreams.


M.T. Anderson


#decline-of-civilization #excess #dreams

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.


Scott Adams


#hallucination #i #invitation #join #respectfully

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.


Harold Bloom


#decline #even #i #literary #myths

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.


Irene Dunne


#few #few things #friends #i #invited

The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush.


Sidney Blumenthal


#bush #declined #democrats #fallen #how

With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.


Ernst Engel


#declines #demand #employment #expenditures #food

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.


Pierre de Coubertin


#decline #itself #law #own #seeds

Over the last 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone huge transformation - from a city in decline and on its knees to one that is growing, vibrant and confident.


Lucy Powell


#confident #decline #growing #huge #knees

The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival.


Lucy Powell


#basic #day #decline #each #economic






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