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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. – June Jordan

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There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth. – June Jordan

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Beauty
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June Jordan
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I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. – June Jordan

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respect
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But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. – June Jordan

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Friendship
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Poetry
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell

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Poetry

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Poetry

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. – John Ashbery

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Poetry

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Poetry

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. – Stewart Udall

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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk

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