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Saturday, August 11, 2007

"I, come what may, will not be silenced.
Come what may, I will continue my fight for equality and justice without any compromise until my death."


Taslima Nasreen, Poet, Attacked in India: Men Attack Her; Other Men Try to Sheild Her. Read full article here.
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Poetry can communicate before it is understood. ~T. S. Eliot

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~ Plato

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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. ~ Salman Rushdie

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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ~ Novalis

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Poetry is what maintains our capacity for contemplation and difficulty. — Carolyn Forche

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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. — Denis Diderot

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Sometimes something wants to be said, sometimes a way of saying wants to be used. — Paul ValĂ©ry

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