Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. - Adrienne Rich

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MBA programs are underwritten by large companies and they succeed at producing future employees of large companies. In that regard, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing.

Adrienne Rich

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

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You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

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The moment when a feeling enters the body
is political. This touch is political

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A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.

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Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

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I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.

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A good friend helps you up when you fall, a best friend laughs in your face and trips you again.

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Often things are as bad as they seem.

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. . . pleasure, of course, is a slippery word. . . . Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

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