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TCS: A Word After a Word After a Word is Power
“You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what
“The language we use to describe and operate in the
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TCS: No Question Is Ever Settled Until It is Settled Right
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“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ”
─ Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still
believe that they are better than the alternative … I believe
that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and
Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands
of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman …
– Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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TCS: Dark Mornings Show Thy Mask
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“Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?”
─ Linus, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
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“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song
that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words.
Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot
do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too
honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
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TCS: I Will Not Dance to Your Drummed Up War
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Poets aren’t very useful.
Because they aren’t consumeful
or very produceful.
─ Ogden Nash
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Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent,
makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing,
makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your
bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own.
─ Dylan Thomas
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TCS: May No Fascist Ever Drag You into Forever Fear
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How long shall bomb and bullets
think for human brains?
─ Katharine Lee Bates,
from “How Long”
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We all declare for liberty, but
in using the same word we
do not all mean the same thing.
─ Abraham Lincoln
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TCS: A Working Class Hero Is Something To Be
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For bonus points, can you name the working-class hero pictured above?
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In a war situation or where violence and
injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon
to be something more than a thing of beauty.
─ Seamus Heaney
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The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly
to those who don’t go to a war, and even
more to those whom the war is making
enormously wealthy. It’s always so.
─ Louis-Ferdinand Celine,
French author and physician
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TCS: What Happened Next? Does Color Modify Poetry?
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The poet may be used as a barometer, but let
us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
─ Lionel Trilling
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Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse,
the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls.
It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.
─ Edward Hirsch
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TCS: How Many Times Do I Have to Say It
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You don’t have to suffer to be a poet;
adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
– John Ciardi
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Must I always sing at the gate to hearten the men who fight
For causes changeful as wind and brief as the summer night?
– Margaret Widdemer,
from “The Singer at the Gate”
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TCS: When You’re Looking for What’s Lost, Everything’s a Sign
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“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die
miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”
― William Carlos Williams
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“Not even waste
is inviolate.
The day misspent,
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Nothing is exempt from resurrection.”
― Kay Ryan, “Say Uncle”
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TCS: But We Shall Ride the Lightning
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“This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know:
that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.”
― Mary Oliver
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“Stand like a beaten anvil. Let earth’s wrong
Beat on that iron and ring back in song.”
― Alfred Noyes
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