Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
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Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
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The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.
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The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.
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The Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree
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While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,
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With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
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Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
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The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s
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Mixtape’ is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson’s film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices.
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And the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
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The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
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As a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.
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