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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. -

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. – June Jordan

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The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. – June Jordan

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Poetry
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June Jordan
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We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. – June Jordan

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Black History
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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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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. – Edmund Clarence Stedman

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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and… I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work. – P. J. Harvey

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. – Plato

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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. – Edmond de Goncourt

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