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5714 Poet Quotes

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

Legislation Necessarily start A riot Right song
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the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.

The greatest Been born Waiting patiently The past to
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Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

Dying Something Have no Control over
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only through new words might new worlds be called into order.

Only through New words New worlds Be called
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We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary.

Cannot continually Barricade ourselves Falsified idea Blackness
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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life

Making up Rhymes Never thought That poetry
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The music aids the message.

The music Aids The message
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The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.

The hero The person Who's afraid Run away
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Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions,and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

Our thoughts Feelings Prized possessions Are times
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We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

Have different Relationship With music Always there
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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

I think Fool ourselves Really negate Great deal
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Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth.

Up high Than dig Grind Inner truth
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The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

Most powerful Political voices Different way The world
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I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age.

Am hoping Peaceful transition New age
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i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots.

I laced My shoes With sorrow Walked
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My love is my soul's imagination,how do I love you,imagine.

My love Soul's imagination
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I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

I dance No reason An activist Intellectualized circumstance
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I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons.

I surrendered My belief Found myself Life injecting
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A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.

Lie preserved Stained glass More true
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i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking.

A survivor The flood Walking through The street
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Love without philosophizing is like having a quick coffee.

Love Without Philosophizing
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Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Ugliness Way Superior Beauty
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I like the night, I have clearer ideas in the dark.

Like Night Ideas Dark
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it
Everthing Beauty Everyone Sees it
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A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Woman Smile Beauty Wears
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If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

Let people Your life Be pretty Amazing
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Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

Life Constant struggle An individual A member
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If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

You're good Love it Navigate The river
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Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

Poverty Give you Strength Teach you
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The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

The world Smallest parts Is filled With things
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What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

What kind Life You have A house
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If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears.Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad.

You care About something You cry Use it
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If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

One reads Enough books Fighting chance Survival increase
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I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.

Was studying The sky An astronomer Daytime
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I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

Suddenly understand Every moment A book Taken seriously
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You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much too.

You have Love somebody Hate them
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I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children.

I've learned Worst thing A parent Is ignore
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Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.

Your past A skeleton One step Behind you
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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

It comes To death That laughter Tears
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When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

You resort To violence A point Profound failure
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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.

Books Beer The best Worst defense
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You should approach each book you should approach life-with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.

Should approach Each book Approach life Real possibility
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That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.

Whole point Of life New people
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She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.

In pain Loved her Her pain
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Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.

Somebody dies People eat Your food Funny
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My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.

My school My tribe We have Study
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

To read A book Three times Know it
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And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.

Believe me Make anybody The existence God
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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

We danced Under wig Unfinished wall Broken promises
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In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.

The middle Drunk life The good Sober moments
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