"Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy."

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Source : Dean Young (2010). “The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction”, Graywolf Press

Dean Young

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“Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error.”
“Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.”
“This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.”

Source : "U.N. report faults prolific use of drone strikes by U.S." by David S. Cloud, articles.latimes.com. June 3, 2010.
“I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.”
“None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing and wholesome influence. We all know the person for whose company we are the better, though the talk is only about fishing or embroidery.”
“When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama.”

Source : Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.223, Penguin
“Don't be kind of bold. Be bold.”
“I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.”

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