Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) Quotes
If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.
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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
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The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.
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…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.
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I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.
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I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.
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The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.
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With any character you portray, you can never play the end in the beginning. You have to pursue and attack your intention as if they're going to be successful.
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If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.
