"For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change."

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Source : "Vermin: A Notebook" by John Kinsella, www.poetryfoundation.org. December 1, 2009.

John Kinsella

#Political Quotes #Ethical Quotes #Aids Quotes

“The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.”
“Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.”
“She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms.”
“As long as we live beyond our means, we are destined to live beneath our means.”

Source : The Republican Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2007.
“So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design”
“The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.”
“I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all.”

Source : "Ask the Filmmaker". Live chat, www.pbs.org. September 21, 2010.
“Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the pleasure of this state is increased by the low level of civilization and the narrow empty life to which these men are confined.”

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