Quote by John Lennon
My role in society, or any artists or poets role, is to try and ex

My role in society, or any artists or poets role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. – John Lennon

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We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crows nest of that ship. – John Lennon

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And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide hes no longer God… Theyll turn on him, and I hope he survives it. – John Lennon

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Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself. – Margaret Atwood

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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. – John Stuart Mill

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Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property. – Johann Most

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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have experienced healing through other writers poetry, but theres no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, Ill write a bad poem. – Marilyn Hacker

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