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A Fortune for Your Disaster QUOTES

A Fortune for Your Disaster QUOTES

1 " the poem begins not where the knife enters but where the blade twists. "

― Hanif Abdurraqib , A Fortune for Your Disaster

2 " The difference between a warning and a threat is all a matter of what you've lived through "

― Hanif Abdurraqib , A Fortune for Your Disaster

3 " A person only gets to be called a widow once, and then they are simply lonely. The bluest period. "

― Hanif Abdurraqib , A Fortune for Your Disaster

4 " true wealth is the ability to embrace forgetting "

― Hanif Abdurraqib , A Fortune for Your Disaster

5 " Few things are more dangerous than a man / who is capable of dividing himself into several men, / each of them with a unique river of desire / on their tongue "

― Hanif Abdurraqib , A Fortune for Your Disaster

6 " I might undo the forest winding its way along the sides of my face so that I can more closely resemble a man worthy of waking to roses at his feet in a kill or be killed "

― Hanif Abdurraqib , A Fortune for Your Disaster

7 " Forgive me, for I have been nurturing my well-worn grudges against beauty. "

― Hanif Abdurraqib , A Fortune for Your Disaster

8 " if man is not supposed to play
God then
why did God make dying look
so beautiful. "

― Hanif Abdurraqib , A Fortune for Your Disaster

9 " That which forces us to bear our teeth is all a matter of perspective "

― Hanif Abdurraqib , A Fortune for Your Disaster

10 " You let a man see God once and he'll learn to make a country out of anything "

― Hanif Abdurraqib , A Fortune for Your Disaster

11 " Maybe all the blues requires is a person who has been touched before
and a caravan of hands busy with their own pleasures
If you can't fashion a song out of that
there is no God or devil that can make something of your soul anyway "

― Hanif Abdurraqib , A Fortune for Your Disaster

12 " not everything is Sisyphean. no one ever wants to imagine themselves as the boulder. "

― Hanif Abdurraqib , A Fortune for Your Disaster