"The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

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"breathe in experience breathe out poetry
"No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. Yo...
"As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and posit...
"We hear the saints saying: Our brother the world. We hear the revolutionaries: Dare we win?
"We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.