Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.
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Shane Claiborne
They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches.
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Salena Godden
All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates...
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Haniel Long
It is very difficult to win. It's not in my script.
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Anonymous
Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to slip inside...
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Gustave Flaubert
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
