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5714 Poet Quotes

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

About Being Life One Thing
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Expect Expect The Unexpected Intellect Modern
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Am Clever I Am Saying
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London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.

Full Know London People
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Always First First Love Last
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Experience Get Nothing One Thing
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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Community Giving Ignorance Journalism
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Cure Just Nothing Senses
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Beginning Lifelong Love Oneself
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Because Ignores Most People
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I don't like writing essays or theory.
Essays Like Theory Writing
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I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

Sing Speak Strangers Talking
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Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Around Audience Commercial Ideal
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Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Best Different First More
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I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

Believe Friends Language Literary
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The moment of change is the only poem.

Change Moment Only Poem
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Planet Force Among Feared
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?

Belongs Death Famine Life
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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Mental Bonds Homes Strike
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

False Past Real Events
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It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

Alive Time Painful Also
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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

Tale Passion Tell Mind
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Life on the planet is born of woman.

Born Life Planet Woman
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Did Does Explain Less
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Day Filled Lnvisible Sky
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Lifetime Once Youth
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

News Truth False New
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.

Human Human Voice Organ Soul
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

Truth Creating More Around
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Ambition Great Most People
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

Above Aim Hit Little
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

Society Human Change Bring
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Capable Doing Done Feel
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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Best Rain Raining Thing
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Call Cold Every Every Man
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Age Another Away Day
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

Affection City Enjoy Feel
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Could Disarm Each Enemies
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Beads Control Crow Dropping
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Benefits Devotion Enemies Enemy
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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

Access Direct Life Taboo
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Demand Freedom Only People
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Doctor Door Joy Nose
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

Fire Hotter Makes Often
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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Cycles Process Vision Remains
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Burn Live Living Desire
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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

Survival Passion Battle Child
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At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

Implicitly Poetry Politics Twenty
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Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.

Citizens Activism Public Laws
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I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

State Violence Erased Concrete
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