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A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out…
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...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted…
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Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
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Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in…
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I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves
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In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he…
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Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which…
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I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on…
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Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and…
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One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one…
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Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
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Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American…
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because,…
— Victor Borge
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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
— Wyndham Lewis
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The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
— Murray Rothbard
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I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all…
— Coretta Scott King
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A lack of love is the cause for most problems in life, when love is missing, nothing can flourish, only pain thrives.
— Leon Brown
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A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is…
— Ronald Reagan
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I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything…
— Lynda Bellingham
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Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.
— Jim Babka
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A visionary thrives under all conditions.
— Esther Hicks
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A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.
— Unknown Author
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