I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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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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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.
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They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius
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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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And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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And what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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They may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
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There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
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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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In ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.
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Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.
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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––
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The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.
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Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy
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Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people
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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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