"In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it."

-- Antonio Machado

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“Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.”
“We're not taught to think in terms of needs. We don't make nice dead people when we're in touch with needs. Domination structures cannot maintain themselves when citizens are educated to be alive.”
“I think we should all call ourselves feminists.”

Source : "Hanna Rosin: 'I feel miscast in the gender wars'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.
“I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.”
“God warned me. He told me to build a boat...”
“She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.”
“the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.”

Source : Karen Hesse (1997). “Out of the Dust”, p.225, Scholastic Inc.
“True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it but until we manifest that love in action, our words are nothing but sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”

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