Quote by Phil Ochs
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselv

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song. – Phil Ochs

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Even though you cant expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. Thats morality, thats religion. Thats art. Thats life. – Phil Ochs

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Religion
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Phil Ochs
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And if theres any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if theres any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara. – Phil Ochs

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Hope
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I dont live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. – Charles Olson

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Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. – Samuel Prout

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I hate French poetry. What measured glitter! – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897, spoken b

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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. Its not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. – Saul Williams

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