As Necessary As Bread

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Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. ~ Mary Oliver

Art Has Two Faces

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. ~ Lester Bangs

Most Responsive To Change

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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ~ Charles Darwin