"Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen."

-- Utah Phillips

#Poet Quotes #Performances Quotes

“Everybody needs love. There are a lot of guys that you think are hard-core gangsters, but all these guys' weaknesses are women. Look at the movie Scarface. At the end of the day, all he wanted to do was to have kids with his woman.”
“Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.”
“The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However, since all reserve funds and savings today usually flow to him, and the total demand for free purchasing power, whether existing or to be created, concentrates on him, he has either replaced private capitalists or become their agent; he has himself become the capitalist par excellence.”
“...The Marines have been the first to land-on embattled beaches throughout the world-we share the unfaltering confidence of all Americans that they will land again-and land hard.”
“Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.”
“Yoga always made me feel really good about myself.”
“Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.”
“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.”

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