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Jan Clausen

"we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how long they have been ignored, taken for granted, misused. After all, isn't poetry a form of prophecy, and aren't prophets known for their talent for flourishing in inhospitable deserts and other bleak surroundings? Maybe. But maybe not indefinitely."

Source : Jan Clausen (1982). “A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism”, Long Haul Pr

Jan Clausen

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“There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.”
“It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.”
“My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.”
“I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.”
“When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.”
“Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the meaning of life and what we are here for. Prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action are the means through which we grow and find meaning.”

Source : Jean Shinoda Bolen (2007). “Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness As A Soul Journey”, p.227, Conari Press
“I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the states, - opposed to taking the power from the hands of the people, - opposed to special monopolies, - opposed to a protective tariff, - opposed to a latitudinal construction of the constitution, - opposed to slavery agitation and disunion. This is my democracy. Point to a single act of my public career not in keeping with these principles.”
“In short both the things we feel we need and the things available for us to buy depend largelyâ€”beyond some point, almost entirelyâ€”on the things that others choose to buy.”

Source : Robert H. Frank (2001). “Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy In An Era of Excess”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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