"But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way."

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"But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way."

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"No free man needs a God; but was I free?How fully I felt nature glued to meAnd how my childish palate loved the tasteHalf-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!My picture book was at an early ageThe painted parchment papering our cage:Mauve rings around the moon; blood-orange sun;Twinned Iris; and that rare phenomenonThe iridule - when, beautiful and strange,In a bright sky above a mountain rangeOne opal cloudlet in an oval formReflects the rainbow of a thunderstormWhich in a distant valley has been staged -For we are most artistically caged."

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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

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"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."

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"Do not become a slave to sin."

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"I think I have a right to live my life the way I like."

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"When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess."

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"When the yoke is broken, the burden is removed."

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"If the holy spirit is in you, you are free, even if you are in a physical jail."

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"It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it for granted is foolishness of the most foolish sort."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right."

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