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My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy: Poems QUOTES

My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy: Poems QUOTES

1 " like a note of music, you are about to become nothing "

― Robert Bly , My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy: Poems

2 " We will have to call especially loud to reach Our angels, who are hard of hearing; they are hiding In the jugs of silence filled during our wars. "

― Robert Bly , My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy: Poems

3 " It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down. "

― Robert Bly , My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy: Poems

4 " I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever. "

― Robert Bly , My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy: Poems

5 " Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is. "

― Robert Bly , My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy: Poems

6 " My life failed on the very day I was born. "

― Robert Bly , My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy: Poems