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“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations. It's like looking too closely and too long into a mirror; soon your features distort, then erupt. You look too closely into your poems, or listen too closely to them as they arrive in whispers, and the features inside you - call it heart, call it mind, call it soul - accelerate out of control. They distort and they erupt, and it is one strange pain. You realize, then, that you can't attempt breaking down too many barriers in too short a time, because there are as many horrors waiting to get in at you as there are parts of yourself pushing to break out, and with the same, or more, fevered determination.”

Quote by Jim Carroll

Book:Forced Entries- The Downtown Diaries: 1971-1973

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Forced Entries- The Downtown Diaries: 1971-1973

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Jim Carroll, an American author, poet, and actor, was born on August 1, 1949, and passed away on September 11, 2009. He is best known for his autobiographical novel 'The Basketball Diaries,' which chronicles his transformation from a street kid to a poet. more

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