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Whatever happens, I shall never be alone,
I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.

— Stephen Spender The Still Centre (1939)

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Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

After the first powerful plain manifesto
The black statement of pistons, without more fuss
But gliding like a queen, she leaves the station.

History is theirs whose language is the sun.

Ruins and Visions (1942)

The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State.

Life and the Poet (1942)

At dawn she lay with her profile at that angle
Which, when she sleeps, seems the carved face of an angel.

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Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

Joseph de Maistre Considerations on France (1796)

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Nina Simone

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy

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