Mahder Assefa Quotes & Sayings

You told me once
about how they used
to build whole city states
out of poems
how everything you see here
is made out of
the bones of dreams
how having a stiff
drink with lorca meant
you had to write
everything down right away
lately the words just
won't come — John Dorsey

Stephen, why are you shivering?'
'I don't know, my darling.'
'Mary, why are you crying?'
'I don't know, Stephen.'
p424 — Radclyffe Hall

She would be an object in motion that would stay in motion, even if it meant flattening everything in her path. — Amy Zhang

Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy. — Bam Margera

The high is, according to the junkies, worth the side effect. For the record, this is one of the reasons I hate people. — Jonathan Maberry

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life. I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein. — Al Seckel

Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory or defeat. Everything moves towards the end, when the outcome will be known.
Poems, regardless of any outcome, cross the battlefields, tending the wounded, listening to the wild monologues of the triumphant or the fearful. They bring a kind of peace. Not by anaesthesia or easy reassurance, but by recognition and the promise that what has been experienced cannot disappear as if it had never been. Yet the promise is not of a monument. (Who, still on a battlefield, wants monuments?) The promise is that language has acknowledged, has given shelter, to the experience which demanded, which cried out. — John Berger

Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence — Aldous Huxley

Ireally think that the Book Life,After is the best book i've read this year because i really got into it and actually read at home and liked it — Sarah Darer Littman

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. — Aldous Huxley

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it. — Lenny Kravitz

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives. — Melina Marchetta