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Choice Quotes

Sixty five per cent of the American public aren’t antiwar. They’re just anti-losing. You see, if we were winning the war in Iraq, they’d all be for it. If we … Continue reading

2 March, 2007 · 3 Comments

Affirm Life

affirm life. affirm life. we got to carry each other now. you are either with life, or against it. affirm life. Suheir Hammad is a Palestinian American poet. Her poetry … Continue reading

21 February, 2007 · 8 Comments

Speaking truth to power-drunk

Although it can also be read as a criticism of the soft left in the US, that establishment critics and the Old Right have been just as or more vocal … Continue reading

20 February, 2007 · 1 Comment

Rumi-nations III

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk … Continue reading

6 February, 2007 · 2 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"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, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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