"Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?"

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Source : Reginald Shepherd (2007). “Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry”

Reginald Shepherd

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“Don't stop believing in miracles.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2010). “The Dead and The Gone”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralisation, degradation, rank ignorance, overwhelming misfortune and utter penury in order to produce one rich man.”
“So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.”
“I regret that I can't sit in the stands and watch me.”
“Treat your body well, and it'll see you through for many years.”
“It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.”

Source : Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.207, Rowman Altamira
“Writing does not numb, comfort, or soothe me. It does the opposite. It tends to excite me and reinscribe pain. It doesn't function as exorcism.”
“Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives”

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