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A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

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Jorie Graham

The way things work
is that eventually
something catches.

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What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe. ’

Complicates, Poetry, Soothe

I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it. Because there is, of course, always the desire, the hope, that they are not two separate worlds, sound and silence, but that they become each other, that only our hearing fails.

Become, Other Worlds, Think, Thinking, Way, Writing

The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.

Responsibility, Creative, Age, Function, Primary

A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

Stories, Matter, Confession, Overhearing, Apparently

If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.

Taken, Voice, Poetry, Essential, Love, Bravery
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