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"I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change."
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"The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands."
"If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!"
"Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!"
"The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!"
"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"
"Soundless echoes - no voice,Sadness doth keep thee at bay,Stagnation rises as ebb & flow,Nothing alters,Unless you choose to break away."
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"I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity."
"There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."
"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others."
"Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home."
"If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem."
"No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you."
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