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John Berger quotes about together

English Artist November 5, 1926

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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. John Berger
Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetr? to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apar? Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered. John Berger
What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried, thrown, uncovered, together. They are strewn there pell-mell. One of your ribs leans against my skull. A metacarpal of my left hand lies inside your pelvis. (Against my broken ribs your breast like a flower.) The hundred bones of our feet are scattered like gravel. It is strange that this image of our proximity, concerning as it does mere phosphate of calcium,... John Berger
John Berger quote: "Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must..."
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. John Berger

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