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"So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders."
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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."
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"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."
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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."
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"He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically."Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. He grinned at us, waiting for applause. "That last line was four syllables. Artemis said. Apollo frowned. "Was it? "No, no, that's six syllable, hhhm. He started muttering to himself. That's five syllables! He bowed, looking very pleased with himself."
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"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."
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"Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?"
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"Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You."
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"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."
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"Only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ..."
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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."
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"The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat."
Car
"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."
Love
"Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?"
Love
"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
Friendship
"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
People
"My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair."
Family
"There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth."
Beauty
"The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think."
Poetry
"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."
Injustice
"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."
Being
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