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Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

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• So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Bad
  • Perfect
  • Simple

• We had a close-knit family. That's one reason I was probably more shocked than anybody that someone in my family was on drugs.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Family
  • Drugs
  • Close-Knit

• I wanted them to beat Laurel Highlands' score, and we did. I want them thinking Albert Gallatin is coming for them.

  

  Albert Gallatin
  • Thinking
  • Wanted
  • Score

• Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • Body

• Me and my dog are best friends.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Friends
  • Dog
  • My Dog

• I think some of our guys hit a little bit of a wall here. We talked a lot about that ... This is a heavy time to play basketball. You've really got to take care of yourself. I had a couple of guys fighting through things out there, under-the-weather type of things. They just couldn't get themselves going.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Time
  • Fighting
  • Care

• There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man....

  

  Robert Frost
  • Time
  • War
  • Nature

• Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments.

  

  Confucius
  • Expect
  • Avoid
  • Resentments

• Travelers must be content.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Travel
  • Traveler

• This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Darkness
  • Acknowledge
  • Mines

• For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel: Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Cutting
  • Judging
  • Angel

• I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Memory
  • Learned
  • Experienced

• I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Peace
  • Write
  • Right

• "Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor; but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in?"

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hope
  • Lord
  • Anchor

• The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Civilization
  • Public
  • Measure

• All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Hands
  • Humans
  • Equal

• Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

  

  William Edgar
  • Protest
  • Consensus