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  Writing has saved me from the mad house, from murder and suicide. I still need it. Now. Tomorrow. Until the last breath.

Charles Bukowski 

Bukowski's Genius Life Philosophy

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 No one has ever written or painted, sculpted, modeled, built, invented, except to get out of hell.

-Antonin Artaud

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 Be reconciled, poet, with your world, it is

the only truth!

William Carlos Williams

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The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

Antoni Gaudi

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"There is no freedom for the enemies of freedom."

La Revolution Surrealiste

January, 1926

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"Paper / may burn / but words / will escape."

Celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 100 Years

––City Lights storefront, March 2019-Present

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...these poor nerves so wired to the skull

Ache on the lovelorn paper

I hug to love with my lovelorn scrawl...

-Dylan Thomas

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"...ask me where I think I'm going

I answer that I'm going where I think."

-Sam Hazo

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  "It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work."

-Henry Moore

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“Art is a laughable business if it is devoid of sacrifice.”

-Boris Pasternak 

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Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

- Ben Jonson

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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

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"You see things; and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not?"
– George Bernard Shaw

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"Poetry is an island that breaks away from the main."
                                                                      -Derek Walcott

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The MAN who has organized his life, his work and himself is the MODERN MAN.
-Alexander Rodchenko

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"You're poor if you have everything and if you don't strive for something."
                                                                                            -INO

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"For these are giant times and history
  Is fashioned as the minutes burn away."
-Alan Ginsberg

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"They push us towards the world of total work,
our politicians with their seedy minds
and dubious labels, Communist or
Capitalist, none wanting freedom-
only power. All that reminds us
we are human and therefore not a herd
must be concealed or killed or slowly left
to die..."
-Michael Harnett
http://www.michael-hartnett.com/

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‘Poets in the free countries don’t get famous. Poets in the unfree countries might wish to be less famous than they are’ -Clive James

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/21/clive-james-poets-sitwell-auden-gerbils

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"The Muses' house has many mansions."
- Arthur Quiller-Couch, Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900, ed.