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“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”
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Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”
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“the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat”
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“Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.”
― Lord Jim
― Lord Jim
“…one of the coasts of a country that was a lifeboat, and that lifeboat was under siege by people who wanted to be taken on board. She thought to the southern shores of Italy and the boats that came up from the south, crammed with the desperate of North Africa striving to get into Europe. The vessels capsized under their human cargo; there were people in the water, their dream coming to a watery end. How could one turn one’s face against all of that? What sort of person would one have to be to sail past?”
― The Novel Habits of Happiness
― The Novel Habits of Happiness
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