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 Marina Tsvetaeva
One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
Don't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone?
I opened my veins. Unstoppablylife spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourishthe rushes unstoppablywithout cure, gushespoetry ...
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No...
Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.
