In the fifties… we were so busy being cool that we didn’t know how to say the word … - Diane di Prima - Quotesmemo.com

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I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest — so sweetly and so surely.

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Diane di Prima

In the fifties… we were so busy being cool that we didn’t know how to say the word love

Being Cool, Busy, Know, Say, Words Love

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I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.

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The only war is the war against the imagination.

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I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life

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Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose.

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More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild

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It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.

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But I've never met a racist yet who thinks he's a racist. That's always the disturbing thing about when we begin to look at ourselves.

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I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest — so sweetly and so surely.

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When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.

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