Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
![Barbara Kingsolver Quote - Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/codi-gives-you-the-willies-doesnt-it-the-thought-o-683x1024.jpg)
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