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“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.  If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” Gospel of Thomas  

“Choose your leader with wisdom and forethought.  To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.  To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.  … Continue reading →

“You must think for yourself, or others will do your thinking for you.”Henry David Thoreau

“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”  Paul Valery

“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at faults, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.” Salman Rushdie