". . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt."

-- Audre Lorde

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“Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they'll come back. We have to be great every time or we'll lose them.”
“Space is to place as eternity is to time.”
“You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism”

Source : "Kim Gordon: life after Sonic Youth". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2014.
“Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.”
“Most songwriting like poetry takes a careful selection of words. Sometimes you're just channeling something and a selection of words come out that you wouldn't normally say, but you come up with an assortment of words that are really special. It just makes sense even if it's normally how you wouldn't express yourself.”
“It's destiny! Perhaps it is the energy that pulls on the threads and, well, I'm just leaving it as it is meant to be.”

Source : Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25, 2010.
“It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.”

Source : James Elkins (2011). “What Photography Is”, p.124, Routledge
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.”

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