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Will Willingham
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Poetry could surely slow a guy down.”
“Poetry can be a peculiar gateway, Will. It can be a way into all kinds of things that don’t seem to have a way in, or that we don’t even know we want in.”
“Keats, Mr. Phillips? Am I to believe you were on my roof reading John Keats?”
“He harbored a hidden inclination toward poetry but in the hard boiled world of adjusting, reading a sonnet seemed like something that could get a guy killed. It was perfect, Ben had told him. Like a book with a compartment cut out of the pages to hide a flask of whiskey, this one also let a guy hide a secret vice: the cover was bound upside down. So he could read the book, and if anyone saw him, it would look like he was posing. Plausible deniability.”
“There is only you: there is no one else on the telephone: No one else is on the air to whisper: No one else but you will push the bell. No one knows if you don’t; neither ships Nor landing-fields decode the dark between: You have your eyes and what you see is. The earth you see … Joe Murphy's partially memorized Archibald McLeish”
“There in the moonlit silence, Will found himself wanting. Lacking, yes. He always found himself lacking. But tonight he also found himself wanting something he couldn’t quite put his finger on. A wishing he felt in his chest and as the silence grew more quiet, the wanting grew more noisy.”
“Mr. Phillips! Are you just getting in for the night? And Lord, have mercy! Where are your pants?”
“Look, Mr. Phillips. We all know you're not his son." People had been saying that to Will about his own dad his entire life.”
“Joe put his face up to the window grate. "Well, hello there. 'Who are you? Are you nobody too?'" Emily purred inside her cage.”
“Will asked the same questions as many times as he’d read the verse. What did Keats want to do, why would it take so many years, and what the hell ever got done just because a guy decided to overwhelm himself in poetry called by an old fashioned word?”
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