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Noam Chomsky: “I don’t know what word in the English language—I can’t find one—applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets. The word ‘evil’ doesn’t even begin to approach it.”
Mark Harris: “Though the threat to their safety and employment during the so-called Lavender Scare of the early 1950s was very real, they weren’t so much the target of male revulsion as of disappointment, indifference and unspoken erotic curiosity; women who preferred women were viewed less as public threats than as damaged goods, scarcely worth considering.”
Elizabeth S. Gunn: Stillness and longing are recurrent themes in my poetry. I find that most experiences intersect with one or both of these states of being. I also rely on the second person point of view. There’s a “you” out there listening, and I often think of stillness and longing as the “you” through which images and experience find words to cohere with meaning. Sometimes the “You” is capitalized because the poem is searching for the divine, whatever or whoever that might be. In other words, when I write poetry in dialogue with a “you” or with a Creative Intelligence, it seems to render more sincere.
