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“By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South Platte River: algae, broken concrete, jet contrails, the smell of crude oil. What I hope to document, though not at the expense of surface detail, is the form that underlies this apparent chaos.”

“Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.”

Men Writing Soul Night Dog Broken Shots Legs Broken Leg

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.”

Ifs Certain Animal Written Dog Flower Hair Broken Fine Pages Mad Distance Chinese Divided Pigs Brushes Fabulous Emperor Mermaid Camels Classification Encyclopedia Vases Stray Dogs

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“I have wished you dead and myself dead. How could it be otherwise. I have broken into you like a burglar. And you've set your dogs on me. And a pile of broken sticks. A child could kick. I have climbed you like a monument, gasoing, For the exercise and the view, And leaned over the railing at the top... Strong and warm, the summer wind.”

Children Strong Views Dog Wind Broken Exercise Summer Anger Sticks Warm Kicks Monument Burglars Summer Wind

Author:Alicia Ostriker

“The dog writhing in the gutter, its back broken by a passing car, knows what it is to be alive. So too with the aged elk of the far north woods, slowly dying in the bitter cold of winter. The asphalt upon which the dog lies knows no pain. The snow upon which the elk has collapsed knows not the cold. But living beings do.”

Knows Pain Lying Alive Dying Dog Car Broken Cold Winter Woods Passing Snow Passings Bitter Gutters No Pain Asphalt Elk Bitter Cold

Author:George Greenstein

“Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.”

Knows Want Long Feelings Father Talking Dog Broken Died Rose Boxes Boat Pockets Chocolate Captains Stem Lied Box Of Chocolates

Author:Leonard Cohen

“There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog”

Source: King Solomon's Ring

“He is afraid of you, so he hates you. It would be wrong to hurt him again. It would be like beating a dog after it has loosed it's bladder. The spirit is already broken in him.”

Would Be Spirit Hate Hurt Dog Broken Hate You Bad People Bladder

Book:Conqueror: The Complete 5-Book Collection

Source: Conqueror: The Complete 5-Book Collection