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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The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
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Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.
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I am done with the hour-long true crime shows: "She was a happy married wife. Everything was perfect. Until the trip to Aruba."
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I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.
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I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.
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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.
