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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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Phil Ochs
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To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential. – John Drinkwater

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Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. – Amy Clampitt

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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. – Robert Penn Warren

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I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. Hes always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life. – Lee Tergesen

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