"I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much difference between art and poetry."

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Matthea Harvey

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“Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craftâ€™s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify experience and also to slow down labor. It is not about quick transactions or easy victories. That slow tempo of craftwork, of taking the time you need to do something well, is profoundly stabilizing to individuals.”
“All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.”
“Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power.”

Source : Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.122, Beacon Press
“Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important”
“It's the same at a rock-and-roll concert. You have an opening number with a strong entrance; then you go through a lot of the old standards, building up to your hit song at the end.”
“My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking,”

Source : "Sammy Davis Jr". The Oral Cancer Foundation, February 6, 2008.
“If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless. If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.”
“Breastfeeding is the best diet. I want to eat healthy for her, so it's easy to say no to pizza.”

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