WIST Quotations

Sarton, May -- Journal of a Solitude, “September 15th” (1973)

Dave — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:21:33 +0000

I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful halt, “won’t go,” or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person’s face.

May Sarton (1912-1995) Belgian-American poet, novelist, memoirist [pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton]
Journal of a Solitude, “September 15th” (1973)
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Richardson, James -- Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays, # 23 (2001)

Dave — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 18:03:40 +0000

All stones are broken stones.

James Richardson (b. 1950) American poet
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays, # 23 (2001)
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Mitchell, Margaret -- Gone with the Wind, ch. 57 [Rhett] (1936)

Dave — Tue, 10 May 2016 13:23:19 +0000

“Scarlett, I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. Perhaps if I were younger–” he sighed. “But I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over. I’m too old to shoulder the burden of constant lies that go with living in polite disillusionment. I couldn’t live with you and lie to you and I certainly couldn’t lie to myself. I can’t even lie to you now. I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can’t.”

He drew a short breath and said lightly but softly:

“My dear, I don’t give a damn.”

Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) American author and journalist.
Gone with the Wind, ch. 57 [Rhett] (1936)
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Poindexter, Christopher -- “The blooming of madness” (14 May 2013)

Dave — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 12:38:25 +0000

And in the end,
we were all just
humans,
drunk on the idea
that love,
only love,
could heal our brokenness.

Christopher Poindexter (contemp.) American poet
“The blooming of madness” (14 May 2013)
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Usually misattributed (without line breaks) to F. Scott Fitzgerald. More information here.