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The poet is a truth bearer of reality and image. We live in a society of denial that doesn't want to see or hear these truth tales, so consequently poets are shunned to a great degree because people don't always want to hear the truth.

— Sandra María Esteves Interview (2001)

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How I love to listen./Remind myself there is more to the world./How I have learned to grow from it.

Bluestown Mockingbird Mambo (1990)

Discovering new meanings for old words/listed in the encyclopedia of colonialism.

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Intelligence and feelings forming alliances for seeing.

Bluestown Mockingbird Mambo (1990)

See for yourself/the you inside no one else can see.

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Poems are for the livin', that's what I know.

Bluestown Mockingbird Mambo (1990)

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

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I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

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