The War Against Poetry
A poet’s work — to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, to start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep.
— Salman Rushdie
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I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It’s coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.
- Alejandro Jodorowsky.
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I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way…I can’t apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to…
— Alice Walker — The Colour Purple, 1982.
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Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contradiction of humanity’s use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed and it’s not the laws of nature.
— Naomi Klein
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end… The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the…
