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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

• Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Children
  • Abortion
  • Kills

• 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 went to a hypnotist. He put me under a spell, and every time I had a craving for a cigarette, I would throw up. It's very embarrassing right after sex. I find it pretty hard to get that second date after that. Girls get all snobby after you barf on them.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Sex
  • Girls
  • Date

• I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Protest

• There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Love
  • Way
  • Excellent

• Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear. We could do great things with our hair. We had protest badges that read "I belong to the Blank Generation." It was such a great time to be a kid.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Kids
  • Wonderful
  • Punk

• We physicians protest the outrage of holding the entire world hostage. We protest the moral obscenity that each of us is being continuously targeted for extinction. We protest the ongoing increase in overkill. We protest the expansion of the arms race to space. We protest the diversion of scarce resources from aching human needs. Dialogue without deeds brings the calamity ever closer, as snail-paced diplomacy is outdistanced by missile-propelled technology. We physicians demand deeds to implement further deeds which will lead to the abolition of all nuclear weaponry. We recognise that before abolition can become a reality, the nuclear arms race must be halted.

  

  Bernard Lown
  • Reality
  • Moral
  • Protest

• Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

  

  William Edgar
  • Protest
  • Consensus