Mary Jo Bang Quotes

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

Mary Jo Bang

#2. Wake up, see your own wretchedness, and fly to the Lord Jesus. He is the righteousness of God, for He Himself is God. Only by believing in His righteousness will you be delivered from condemnation.

John Bunyan

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

Mary Jo Bang

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

Mary Jo Bang

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

Mary Jo Bang

#6. Listening is a gift that generates the quality of life and it helps us to grow in life.

Euginia Herlihy

#7. 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.

Mary Jo Bang

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

Mary Jo Bang

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

Mary Jo Bang

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

Mary Jo Bang

#11. 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.

Mary Jo Bang

#12. I think, now, younger generations do take that for granted in a lot of ways. I don't think that takes away from the struggle of identity and what that is. But the struggle for identity is everybody's struggle. No matter what it is.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#13. Always we should appreciate what we are able to do, and not feel bad about what we haven't done.

Tulku Thondup

#14. As our technological capacities continue to increase and our environment becomes ever more fragile and endangered, we find that changes to the Earth that used to take ten thousand years now take a fraction of that.

Robert David Steele

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

Mary Jo Bang

#16. Landing a role now is not based on my looks - more on my acting ability.

Jude Law

#17. There's nobody bigger or better at the military than I am.

Donald Trump