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PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#bogus #celebrates #general #good #good work

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#been #before #black #cause #correct

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. ↗

— Helmut Walcha

#bach #experiencing #feel #him #life

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#fragments #granted #love #stronger #symmetry

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#attempt #serious #something #try #worthwhile

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#culture #know #made

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#biography #body #individual #island #joins

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#caribbean #comes #dissolves #faced #history

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize. ↗

— George Wald

#lecture #many #more #much #probably

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives. ↗

— George Wald

#every #learned #lives #must #others