There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true. — Kevin Powers Distinction Copy Share Image
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable. — Kevin Powers Boundaries Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to be responsible for him. I had enough to worry about. I was disintegrating, too. How was I supposed… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more… — Kevin Powers Details Copy Share Image
“Through those drooping branches the city sprawled out haphazardly like a drunk on a sidewalk, fallen where he may.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“I've come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two different days doesn't make it… — Kevin Powers Different day Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very… — Kevin Powers Care Copy Share Image
The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled… — Kevin Powers Cities Copy Share Image
“People are going to die," he said flatly. "It's statistics." Then he got up and left the room.” — Kevin Powers Iraq war Copy Share Image
“It's lovely to think that snow can be special. we're always told it is. Of all those million million flakes that fall,… — Kevin Powers Introspection Copy Share Image
The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them. — Kevin Powers Details Copy Share Image
It reminded me of talking, how what is said is never quite what was thought, and what is heard is never quite… — Kevin Powers Comfort Copy Share Image
“He waited, as if waiting for whichever last shadow would cause evening.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“A moment is never long enough to account for tragedy when you are in it.” — Kevin Powers Time Copy Share Image
“I smelled the clean house and the wood-frame bed. It was all filler. The noise, the sound, they existed just to take… — Kevin Powers Clean house Copy Share Image
“I would only sit muttering with envy for their broad umbrellas, their dryness, and the sweet, unwounded banality of their lives.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of… — Kevin Powers Expectations Copy Share Image
There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it -… — Kevin Powers Books Copy Share Image
“And now I know the extent of Sterling's bravery. It was narrowly focused, but it was pure and unadulterated. I twas a… — Kevin Powers Courage Copy Share Image
I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've… — Kevin Powers Difficult Copy Share Image
“I was disappearing. It was as if I stripped myself away in that darkened bedroom on a spring afternoon, and when I… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“To continue, I had to see the world with clear eyes, to focus on the essential. We only pay attention to rare… — Kevin Powers Death Copy Share Image
I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand. — Kevin Powers Writing Copy Share Image
Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but… — Kevin Powers Body Copy Share Image
