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Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

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John Ashbery

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

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Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It's sort of the way dreams come to us and the way that we get knowledge from them, through television, old movies, which I watch a lot of. Lines of dialogue suddenly seem to be part of a poem.

Dream, Dreams, Mind, Old Movie, Watch

The soul is not a soul, Has no secret, is small, and it fits Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.

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And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference. Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.

Art, Country, Meanwhile, People, Powerful

I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

Feels, Healing, Poetry, Stream, Streams, Time

In the evening Everything has a schedule, if you can find out what it is.

Evening, Everything, Ifs, Schedule, Schedules
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