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—Poets and anarchists are always the first to go.
—Where.
—To the frontline. Wherever it is.

— Giannina Braschi Yo-Yo Boing! (1998)

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Nostalgia is a fruit with the pain of distance in its pit.

If you look for an identity you find inequality. If you look for similarities you separate one truth from another.

Liberty is not an option. It is a human right.

I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

United States of Banana (2011)

When your heart is a party, solitude becomes crowded with memories.

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

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.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

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

Michael Faraday

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