"I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly."

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Source : Alda Merini (2016). “Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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“The great majority of the Senate of the United States...somewhere around 80 percent...are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made it difficult.”
“But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!”

Source : Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.311
“My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.”
“I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.”
“I look like a child - and I love it!”

Source : Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. July 31, 2007.
“The best work is a fusion of love and praise.”
“We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names. We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change.”

Source : Christina Baldwin (2009). “Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture”, p.22, Bantam
“We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones, some communist ones, and many where economics are not separated out of the broader fabric of life (such as sharing and gift giving, and mutual support).”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

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