Poetry is not communication with angels or with the "subconscious." It is communication with the guts, genitals, and five portals of sense. Nothing more.


Thomas Pynchon

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I always get more applause than votes.
NORMAN THOMAS
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is...
NORMAN THOMAS
Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara...
NORMAN THOMAS
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS
I walk where I choose to walk.
NORMAN THOMAS
Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
THOMAS PEREZ
The real minimum wage is zero.
THOMAS SOWELL
Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it ...
THOMAS PEREZ
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not,...
THOMAS SOWELL
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the p...
THOMAS HOBBES
You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed wi...
THOMAS TRAHERNE
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Euro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their be...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON