Mary Jo Bang Quotes

#1. What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

Mary Jo Bang

#2. I say every dog looks like no other
but that isn't true. Not entirely.
Difference is slippery.

Mary Jo Bang

#3. The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.

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#4. Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.

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#5. You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.

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#6. To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.

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#7. You were. You are
The brightest thing in the shop window
And the most beautiful seldom I ever saw

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#8. And now the question: what do we do with the longing
for what can destroy us?

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#9. T. S. Eliot taught us you can write about your nervous breakdown, but call it 'The Wasteland' and make it big and crazy enough to hide behind.

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#10. A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.

Mary Jo Bang