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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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In a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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