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A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. Weve tri

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. Weve tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk. – Lisa Bonet

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My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family. – Lisa Bonet

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Were getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends – were renegades. – Lisa Bonet

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Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I dont know. But its natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion. – Lisa Bonet

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In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. – Norman MacCaig

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Well, I write a lot of poetry – thats where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me – love, loss, heartbreak – all of that good stuff! – Tristan Wilds

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Ive always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I dont think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. – Justin Townes Earle

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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, “Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.” – Robert Penn Warren, “The Themes of Robert Frost,” Hopwood Lecture, 1947

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