"If we don't know life, how can we know death?"

-- Confucius

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“One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.”
“Being a bad writer a thousand times first.”
“Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.138, Northwestern University Press
“Jenks squinted at me, and when Trent nodded, the pixy gestured sourly to Bis to get on with it. A four inch man ruled us all.”
“The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.”
“After doing a total of five years of Daily Grace, you kind of get burned out on doing the same thing over and over again, so I am allowing myself to not have totally any specific structure.”

Source : "Getting personal with YouTube star Grace Helbig". Interview with Carly Lanning, www.dailydot.com. February 14, 2014.
“If freedom in the imagination is a privilege, it's one I believe everyone should have, as a basic human right. I also believe that poems not only make meaning, but are more often than not engaged in some way with our deepest human issues, be they personal or societal or political.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.”

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