"Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an eternal conversation in which the ancient poets remain contemporary, a conversation inviting us into other languages and cultures even as poetry transcends language and culture, returning us again and again to primal rhythms and sounds."

-- Sam Hamill

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“A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.”

Source : Gertrude Atherton (0101). “Black Oxen”, p.264, Prabhat Prakashan
“I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.”
“Telling my children was the toughest part. But that's when you get strong, because you have to be strong for other people.”
“Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing -- but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.”
“The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the answer is violence. That's what the schools should be doing.”

Source : "Former reporter pushes peace studies". www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.
“Rap is like a set-up...a lot of games, A lot of suckers with colorful names. 'I'm so-and-so,' 'I'm this, I'm that.' But they all just wick-wick-wack.”
“In religion faith does not spring out of feeling, but feeling out of faith. The less we feel the more we should trust. We cannot feel right till we have believed.”
“Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.”

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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