"Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral."

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Source : William Everson (1980). “Earth Poetry: Selected Essays & Interviews of William Everson, 1950/1977”

William Everson

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“Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances”
“Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.”
“Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the â€œright sideâ€ of the war, ever heardâ€”let alone answered?”

Source : Kristina Mcmorris (2011). “Letters From Home”, p.572, Kensington Publishing Corp.
“I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'”
“The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1710). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed, and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies ; with The Cutter of Coleman-street”, p.179
“The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.”

Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”
“For the turning away of the simple, shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.”
“You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.”

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