This Sentimental Education Quotes

“Where is this time to waste?               It’s gone, Dry and brittle               the minutes broke free                             from the tree of time.   Now the earth               eats the future                             in sixty second                                           spoonfuls As fast as it can               leaving nothing               for procrastinators. Nothing for writer’s block               to be hammered                             to. Nothing for when healing is not complete               and the bed Is of no comfort               nor rest.”
― Kenyatta García, This Sentimental Education

“So, it’s another day.               in this place-                             close enough to walk to far enough away               for not knowing                             anyone.”
― Kenyatta García, This Sentimental Education

“All the images lost to years               of being unread-                             the crack is wide enough                                           now               for metaphor and allegory to fall between-”
― Kenyatta García, This Sentimental Education

“it’s all gateway.”
― Kenyatta García, This Sentimental Education

“The papers are read               or if nothing else,                             pissed on, the headlines still remain.”
― Kenyatta García, This Sentimental Education

“the winged octopus”
― Kenyatta García, This Sentimental Education

“Silver-backed mirrors               are detours                             from where green                             is overgrowing                            every reflection.”
― Kenyatta García, This Sentimental Education

“Stories don’t require               many words.”
― Kenyatta García, This Sentimental Education

“Nine and five are meaningless   As are banker’s hours               and postal holidays.”
― Kenyatta García, This Sentimental Education

“Things have changed               through the decades, Streets filled with ashtrays,               and cellphones                             chirping forty feet               from the entrances.”
― Kenyatta García, This Sentimental Education

“Eyes open               involuntary Ears have no               way to cease                             their job.               Nose neither                             and hands –                                           well, They have too many               choices                             to make.”
― Kenyatta García, This Sentimental Education

“deeper mysteries Than all the tales of the sea.”
― Kenyatta García, This Sentimental Education