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"A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk."
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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."
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"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."
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"The crown of literature is poetry."
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"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."
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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
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"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."
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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."
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"I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up."
God
"Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts."
Boys
"I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit."
Corporate
"My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family."
Family
"Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion."
Love
"My life is art. Its how I express God."
Life
"What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money."
Money
"We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share."
People
"I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career."
Art
"My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap."
Business
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