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.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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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 found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?
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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
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Liverpudlians have an amazing sense of humour, and they're very loyal and warm. All my family and friends are there, so when I'm not filming, I like to go back and catch up with everyone. We're a very close family.
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I box because my father made me a warrior, and that doesn't necessarily have to mean a bad thing, either! After, it became for pleasure, pride, and because it's in my blood. This sports made me the man I am.
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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.
