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In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it’s the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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Believe Government Represent Same Thing
… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Dreamt Giving Room World
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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Depended Life Must Read Writing
If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Count Few Hard People Way
The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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Crippling Fever Love Loved Unlive
It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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Believe Choice Help Keep Language Life Move Paralysed Respect
That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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