Quotations

"I know
I'm not attractive
to everyone
but
I
only want
to be attractive
to the ones
that see
the poetry
in me"
~Frida Kahlo

'France, from "the eldest daughter of the Church" to the teenage daughter. Or as Karl Rahner said, modernity is the “runaway son” of Christianity.' Massimo Faggioli

"How right it was to begin the day, as men once did, with a prayer, a call for help! Ignorant of whom to address ourselves to, we will end by grovelling before the first cracked god to come along" - Emile Cioran

“In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.” Joseph Chamberlain

"Putting your collar studs on in the morning and taking them off at night are all the exercise any man needs." Joseph Chamberlain. He had a severe stroke at the age of 70 but I don't suppose that is relevant.

From a story in the New York Times about Burma (Myanmar):


“'In our revolution, we need everyone to join, even poets,' Mr. Maung Saungkha said. He amended his statement. 'Especially poets,' he added.


“Revolution is the job of poets and artists,” says Ko Maung Saungkha, leader of a rebel militia fighting the Myanmar dictatorship. He is not the only poet commander in a country with a strong tradition of political verse.al verse.


"In 2022, Ko Linn Htike, also a poet, was hit in the leg by mortar fire, just one week after he finished basic training. It took him months to recover. He has not written about his injury."