Mary Jo Bang Professions : PoetBorn : October 22, 1946 Browse All Authors Top 9 quotes by Mary Jo Bang Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window. Mary Jo Bang blackgriefmirrors I say every dog looks like no other Mary Jo Bang differencesdoglooks And now the question: what do we do with the longing Mary Jo Bang longing To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on. Mary Jo Bang tragicfategrief A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time. Mary Jo Bang griefmenchildren You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away. Mary Jo Bang griefmotherchildren The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope. Mary Jo Bang bargainswheelsgrief What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth Mary Jo Bang wireminddesire Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who say, but Walter Benjamin who said, 'Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness, with the base and the banal.' In September, 1940, Benjamin died under ambiguous circumstances in the French-Spanish border town of Portbou, while attempting to flee the Nazis. Mary Jo Bang borderseventshistorical Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poetAll Authors
