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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who…
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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness…
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Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and…
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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems…
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If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response.…
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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust…
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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements…
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Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into…
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If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of…
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I am the history of the rejection of who I am
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Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and…
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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces…
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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness…
— June Jordan
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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if…
— Robert Frost
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...a good poem contains both meaning and music
— Eve Merriam
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You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is.
— Theodore Roethke
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Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves…
— Robert Genn
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A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word…
— Alasdair Gray
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I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I…
— Gil Scott-Heron
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A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.
— David Whyte
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A good poem is a contribution to reality.
— Dylan Thomas
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It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it.
— Brandon Stanton
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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to…
— Dylan Thomas
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