Quote by Margaret Walker
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconsc

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. – Margaret Walker

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Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth. – Margaret Walker

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My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we dont want our lives to end. – John Barton

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Poetry… simple, sensuous and passionate. – John Milton, “Of Education. To Mr. Samuel Hartlib,” c.1650

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Sorry if these lines are irregular in length and jolty in meter. – J.F. Bowman, 1868 [a little altered —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]

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The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But its not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it Ive met, and think theyre incredibly witty, inventive – theres a lot of poetry there. – Martin Amis

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We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less. – Eric Cantor

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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and dont let the fear of failure stop you. – Oliver Hudson

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