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Uncool Artists
“In the world’s oldest creation myths, the female god creates the world out of her own body. The Great Mother everywhere was the active and autonomous creatrix of the world . . . and, unlike the aloof and self-righteous patriarchal gods who only recently usurped her mountain-throne, the ancient Goddess was always there — alive, immanent — within her creation; no ontological scapegoater, she was wholly responsible for both the pain and the good of life.”
~ Monica Sjöö, The Great Cosmic Mother
Q: Do you think you’re a cool kid?
A: Never cool, and this is why I have a career as a poet. Cool kids rarely succeed in the arts. I rather have been uncool. I have a life where every day I wake up and craft my love of mi poesia!!”
— Adrian Ernesto Cepeda
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“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering… these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love… these are what we stay alive for.”
— Tom Schulman — Dead Poets Society, 1989.
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“And sometimes when the night is slow
The wretched and the meek
We gather up our hearts and go
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