The worse anyone feels, the worse treated he is. Fools elect fools.
John BerrymanThe Prayer of the Middle-Aged Man
Amid the doctors in the Temple at twelve, between mother
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I conclude now I have no
inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
Peoples bore me,
literature bores me, especially great literature,
Two daiquiris
withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room
and one told the other a lie.
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…Henry is tired of winter,
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That is our ‘pointed task. Love
John BerrymanI do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.
John BerrymanTags: art poetry literature artists luck goya beethoven milton titian ordeals
Is stuffed, de world, wif feeding girls.
John BerrymanListen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I
For you a liar am a thousand times . . . .
something has been said for sobriety but very little.
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