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A Time For Big Poems
I am tired of little tight-faced poets sitting down to
shape perfect unimportant pieces.
Poems that cough lightly — catch back a sneeze.
This is the time for Big Poems,
roaring up out of sleaze,
poems from ice, from vomit, and from tainted blood.
This is the time for stiff or viscous poems.
Big, and Big.
~Gwendolyn Brooks
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Man has to cope with the problem of suffering. The Oriental wants to get rid of suffering by casting it off. Western man tries to suppress suffering with drugs. But suffering has to be overcome, and the only way to overcome it is to endure it.
~ CG Jung
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Every religion begins in mysticism and ends in politics.
— Brother David Steindl-Rast
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There were lots of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
— Margaret Atwood
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