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"Undertow" "I set out one night When the tide was low There were signs in the sky But I did not know I'd be caught in the grip Of the undertow Ditched on a beach Where the sea hates to go With a child in my arms And a chill in my soul And my heart the shape Of a begging bowl"
"What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices."
"One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever."
"It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it."
"You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god ."
"Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory"
"Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music."
"Ah, grief makes us precise!"
"The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back."
"I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows"
"Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone."
"I would like to study Judaism. I feel that my own Jewish education was really quite superficial from a certain point of view. Although I think the values were very clear and were presented very clearly, there's - there were aspects of the whole tradition that were not emphasized. And, you know, I've come to those areas myself as I've grown older. But I would like to go deeper."
"And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep."
"Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be."
"There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't."
"My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has just worked for me, even though I've had to sweat over every word. It's just my style."
"this is every musician's dream, to stand in front of an audience and not have to prove your credentials."
"Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually."
"You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it."
"No one's ever done one of my songs badly. People say to me, "God, so-and-so wrecked that song." Well, I'm unaware of it. Anybody doing one of my tunes has earned my gratitude, and I don't get that many covers where I have the luxury to choose."