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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
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She loved poetry
sometimes I thought that she would take the words
and eat them carefully as filaments of saffron.
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What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
June Jordan
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Born:
July 9, 1936
Died:
June 14, 2002
(aged 65)
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