I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use… — Kevin Powers Be good Copy Share Image
“Her grief was dignified and hidden, as is most grief, which is partly why there is always so much of it to… — Kevin Powers Grief Copy Share Image
To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning. — Kevin Powers Drowning Copy Share Image
“I was an intruder, at best a visitor, and would be even in my home, in my misremembered history, until the glow… — Kevin Powers History Copy Share Image
I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door… — Kevin Powers Admission Copy Share Image
“When we neared the orchard a flock of birds lit from its outer rows. They hadn't been there long. The branches shook… — Kevin Powers Cheap wine Copy Share Image
The war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on. — Kevin Powers Dream Copy Share Image
Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself. — Kevin Powers Aspiration Copy Share Image
“Or should I have said that I wanted to die, not in the sense of wanting to throw myself off of that… — kevin powers Good thing Copy Share Image
“There was no center to the world. The curves of all our bells are cracked.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history. At least that's what I thought. Now I know: All pain is the… — Kevin Powers History Copy Share Image
“I understood. Being from a place where a few facts are enough to define you, where a few habits can fill a… — Kevin Powers Dirt roads Copy Share Image
“And I understood why he came and why I couldn't go, not just then at least, because one never knows if what… — Kevin Powers War Copy Share Image
As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme… — Kevin Powers Able Copy Share Image
“I looked out the window and saw the street and railroad tracks, the woods beyond. Beyond the woods, the county of which… — Kevin Powers Childhood Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, the task at hand for any poem is to approach something that defies exactness or definition with… — Kevin Powers Kind Copy Share Image
It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still… — Kevin Powers Danger Copy Share Image
I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and… — Kevin Powers Accidents Copy Share Image
All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices… — Kevin Powers Choice Copy Share Image
“...what it had indexed to was only an idea of a place, an abstraction formed from memories too brief and passing to… — Kevin Powers Time Copy Share Image
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle… — Kevin Powers Adulthood Copy Share Image
