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Quote by Stephen Dobyns

“It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.”

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Stephen Dobyns is an American poet born on February 19, 1941. His poetry is known for its profound emotion and rich imagination, covering a wide range of themes including love, death, history, and religion. more

“Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous of your toilet articles, of the drops of sweat on your skin, of the germs in the air you breathe which could get into your blood and poison you. And I am jealous of Komarovsky, as if he were an infectious disease. Someday he will take you away, just as certainly as death will someday separate us. I know this must seem obscure and confused, but I can't say it more clearly. I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.”

“But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.”

Used Sorrow Wounds Division Torment Accustomed

Author:Boris Pasternak

“These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall late at night--you remember something they said or something silly that someone once did. For a few moments they completely occupy your mind; then you forget them again.”

People Mind Said Moments Remember Used Night Forget Late Stranger Silly Recalls They Said Acquaintance Remember Something

Author:Stephen Dobyns

“My wife's dying upstairs and I can't do anything about it. I look in her face and I see the memories there. I see how I hurt her and how I said the wrong things and how I got angry and how I wasn't the man she hoped I'd be. I see that in her face and I see she's going to die with that. You think I'm not preoccupied?”

Thinking Men Looks Said I Can Faces Dies Hurt Memories Wife Dying Angry My Wife Wrong Things Upstairs

Author:Stephen Dobyns

“My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.”

Used Daddy All The Pretty Horses

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.”

Men Mean Soul Sometimes Spiritual Turns Subjects Objects Bed Dialogue Comes And Goes

Book:Herzog

Source: Herzog

“call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or without it i was in it too.”

Reason Crazy Chickens Salad

Author:Sarah Dessen

“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.”

“When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.”

Might Eye Pain Song Sun Cry Position Positive Shining Silly Sun Shines Being Silly

Author:Alanis Morissette

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