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- I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.
- Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.
- Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.
- But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared…
- And if I tried to give you something else, something outside myself, you would not know that the worst of anyone can be, finally, an…
- Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know…
- Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself.…
- I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual…
- When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
- Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter.…
- I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves…
- I cannot promise very much. I give you the images I know. Lie still with me and watch. We laugh and we touch. I promise…
- I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe…
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