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“Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.”
Source : Hayden Carruth (2006). “Toward the Distant Islands: New & Selected Poems”, p.25, Copper Canyon Press
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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.”
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“If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.”
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“I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.”
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“We need to empower everybody, not one person, not almost everybody, but everybody.”
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“Medicine for the soul.”
Source : Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes. I. 49. 3.,
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“The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence.”
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“Any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things”
