![Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times. Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you like it or you don't like it. But the fascist sort of stuff plays on your fears and tells you to jump on the party line and gives some simple excuses - blame this person.](/assets/img/quote-photos/poets-are-political-they-have-to-be-reflections-of-their-times-because-theyre.jpg)
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No congressional party is ever going to speak with one voice. It?s not possible. And I?m not worried about that. Steve Elmendorf
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It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it. Dennis Hastert
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We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power. Denis Kearney
party thinking views
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reflection simple focus
Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus. Charles R. Swindoll
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The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.
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The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the most ambitious creations of the human spirit, . . .so magnificent, so daring, that it has rightly aroused the greatest admiration. If we wish to save the world from barbarism we have to refute Socialism, but we cannot thrust it carelessly aside.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible. Edward Abbey