I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without...
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Gilda Radner
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.
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Joyce Carol Oates
I will complain, yet praise; I will bewail, approve: And all my sowre-sweet dayes I will lament, and love.
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George Herbert
Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which I don’t much respect (Mosaic Law, the Nuremberg Laws, and the Israeli Law of Return) I do qualify as a member of the...
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Christopher Hitchens
More Quotes By Amiri Baraka
& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
Let there be no love poems written Until love can exist freely and Cleanly.
We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.
There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!
The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass, ' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I...
