"The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument."

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Source : William Matthews, Sebastian Matthews, Stanley Plumly (2001). “The poetry blues: essays and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

William Matthews

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“If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.”
“Why did Mama say that? Had Papa made her angry again? He made her angry a lot. Gran said it was on account of his "hores." One time Celia asked Nurse what a ***** was, and Nurse paddled her and told her that was a bad word. Then why did Papa have them?”

Source : Sabrina Jeffries (2012). “A Lady Never Surrenders”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's CO2 is emitted by, 68% of the world's GDP is produced in, and 89% of the world's population live in countries that are not handcuffed by Kyoto's restrictions. Like fascism and communism, Kyotoism is an attack on basic human freedoms behind a smokescreen of propaganda. Like those ideologies of human hatred, it will be exposed and defeated.”
“The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current...”

Source : "Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism". Book by Henry Giroux, www.alternet.org. 2011.
“And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.”
“People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people.”
“I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.”

Source : iOS 7 product video, shown at WWDC, 2013.
“Outer order contributes to inner calm.”

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