FREEDOM
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
“All good things are wild and free.”
Definition of ‘Free’: You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
I’m one of those writers who, when writing, believes she’s god-and that she hasn’t bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.