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Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#coming #evolution #i #i think #more

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

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 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

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. ↗

— George Wald

#atomic bombs #bombs #crime #dropping #hiroshima

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know. ↗

— George Wald

#i #know #most #peacetime #thing

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. ↗

— George Wald

#lives #nothing #reality #scientist