"To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world."

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Source : Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”

Maxine Kumin

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“Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)”

Source : Edith Cavell's statement said the night before her execution (October 11, 1915), as reported in an account by Reverend H. Stirling Gahan in "Source Records of the Great War, Volume III" edited by Charles F. Horne, 1923.
“For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.”
“I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.”
“No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.”
“I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.”

Source : Patrick Marber (1999). “Closer”, p.78, Grove Press
“History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”
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“I'm more open to give things a go, but what I'm not good at yet is holding back. If something is daft or rubbish, I just go, I can't be doing it.”

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