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The coast at Cap Gris-Nez, where we spent a day last week: fog, mist, lighthouse, bright ocean, hearing French, yellow abutting blue.

Blake: Exuberance is beauty.

June Jordan: “What Walt Whitman envisioned we, the people and the poets of the New World, embody…. New World does not mean New England. New World means non-European; it means new, it means big, it means heterogenous, it means unknown, it means free, it means an end to feudalism, caste, privilege…. New World means, again, to quote Walt Whitman, ‘By God! I will accept nothing which others cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.’”

Derek Walcott: “I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer”

Muriel Rukeyser: “A poem does invite, it does require. What does it invite? A poem invites you to feel. More than that: it invites you to respond. And better than that: a poem invites a total response.”

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