Quotes


A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.

• Stanley Kunitz


You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

• Stanley Kunitz


Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

• Stanley Kunitz


Poetry is a way of living...a human activity like baking bread or playing basketball.

• Robert Hass


I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

• Maya Angelou


"Just as man learned to integrate races, we must also learn to integrate religions."

• 2008

Blind Savior, False Prophet


Over-reaction is a private folklore. A very personal idiosyncrasy that you share unintentionnally every day and that most of the time people do not understand.

• Caroline B.H.C Morel


It's easy not to hate. The less you see people, the less you hate - until you're left all to yourself.

• T. Wignesan

T. Wignesan, 27 December 2011


"[...] of course we should try to make things better, insofar as it lies within our power. But we should probably not try to make things perfect, especially not ourselves, for that path leads to mass graves.

• Margaret Atwood


For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.

• Kirby Wright

MOLOKA'I NUI AHINA, Summers on the Lonely Isle



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