"I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go."

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Source : Minnie Bruce Pratt (2003). “The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems”

Minnie Bruce Pratt

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“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.”
“In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.”

Source : 1966 Speech to the US Senate, 21 Apr.
“Illiberal left ideology has its greatest strength on campuses because campuses are one of the few places in American life where a certain kind of far-left politics can actually impose hegemony on other ideas and really control the discourse in a way it can't in most places in American life where even moderate liberals are more of a minority.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.”
“Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.”
“Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's breadth away, but then momentum would whirl them apart, and they would withdraw for a second, only to join again. Their sinuous forms wove together like twisting ropes of windblown smoke.”
“More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.”

Source : "Jim Langevin, Congressman Who Organized Gun Victims At SOTU, Was Victim Himself" by Samreen Hooda, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.
“Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.”

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