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Bryant McGill

"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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"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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"My love is a winter's mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck."

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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

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"Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity."

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"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."

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"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."

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"The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under."

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"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does."

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"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."

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"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."

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"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that."

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"Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions."
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"Turn towards love, and become love."
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"In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness."
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"Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death."
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"In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA."
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"If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within yourself."
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"It is essential that you follow your own idea of passion, even if to others it looks like suffering."
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"Your unresolved issues will continue to call-in experiences to teach you what you need to learn."
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"Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do."
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"Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures."
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