“If the lad or lass is among us who knows where the secret heart of this Growth- Monster is hidden, let them please tell us where to shoot the arrow that will slow it down. And if the secret heart stays secret and our work is made no easier, I for one will keep working for wildness day by day.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 5.
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BeWild ReWild
"Open your heart to sound sound to your open heart open sound open heart sound to open heart to open heart sound sound heart heart open sound open sound to open your heart heart to open your sound your sound your heart sound your heart open to the heart of sound
Sound the heart of sound sound the heart of open sound open to the heart of sound sound to open your heart to sound sound t open your sound to heart your heart is sound your sound is heart your sound is open your heart is open your heart your sound you are open you are heart you are sound"
Oliveros, Pauline. “The Listening Field.” The Roots of the Moment. New York, NY: Drogue Press, 1998. p. 63
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WorldCat
"Open your heart to sound sound to your open heart open sound open heart sound to open heart to open heart sound sound heart heart open sound open sound to open your heart heart to open your sound your sound your heart sound your heart open to the heart of sound
Sound the heart of sound sound the heart of open sound open to the heart of sound sound to open your heart to sound sound t open your sound to heart your heart is sound your sound is heart your sound is open your heart is open your heart your sound you are open you are heart you are sound"
Oliveros, Pauline. “The Listening Field.” The Roots of the Moment. New York, NY: Drogue Press, 1998. p. 62
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WorldCat
“It was an exhibition of the insides of bodies. Worminfested hearts, flatulent inflated livers, stomachs stretched like limousines, ulcerous intestines, brains mashed to the consistency of gray scrambled eggs.”
Stern, Lesley. The Smoking Book. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. p. 191.
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University of Chicago Press
“I suspect they were part of a religious center thirty thousand years ago, where animals were "conceived" underground. Perhaps a dreaming place. Maybe a thought that the animals' secret hearts were thereby hidden under the earth, a way of keeping them from becoming extinct.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 89.
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BeWild ReWild
“mercy for those who refuse
to know beauty is soothing
as love is pure energy,
beautiful beyond glory,
liberating hearts & souls
when it—love—is alchemy,
a driving force fusing me
& you—our bodies as one”
Troupe, Quincy. “Mercy.” Seduction: New Poems, 2013-2018. Evanston, IL: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2019. pp. 16-17.
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Northwestern University Press
“Politics is also a space for learning: It’s a terrain where you can expose what priorities are dominant and who sets those priorities, and where you can battle for hearts and minds to reshape and reorganize those priorities.”
Garza, Alicia. The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart. United States: Random House Publishing Group, 2020. p. 167.
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Penguin Random House
“The hurricane leaving its dead or dying leaves also the healing and the hale
But the sunshine and the stars the air we breathe the daily bread the words we listen to and the thoughts of our hearts become ourselves and or sons we who have outlived the empires of the ancients”
Reznikoff, Charles, and Milton Hindus. “In Memoriam." Selected Letters of Charles Reznikoff, 1917-1976. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. p. 143.
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Poetry Foundation
“Eating is a sacrament. The grace we say clears our hearts and guides the children and welcomes the guest, all at the same time. We look at eggs, apples, and stew.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 191.
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BeWild ReWild
“To be sure law is often a response to social change; but as I think Brown v. Board of Education demonstrates, it also can change social patterns. Provided it is adequately enforced, law can change things for the better; moreover, it can change the hearts of men, for law has an educational function also.”
Marshall, Thurgood. “Law and the Quest for Equality.” Washington University Law Review 1967, no. 1 (Winter 1967). p. 8.
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Washington University Open Scholarship
"...& smear your lamps your children's lips
with blood a hole drilled in the wall
will not deter them
from stolen homes stone architectures
they hate they are the convoys of the dead
the ghostly drivers still searching
the roads to malkin ghost carts overturned
ghost autos in blue ditches
if only our eyes were wild enough
to see them our hearts to know their terror
the terror of the man who walks alone
their victim whose house whose skin
they crawl in incubus & succubus
a dibbik leaping from a cow to lodge inside
his throat clusters of jews
who swarm here mothers without hair
blackbearded fathers
they lap up fire water slime
entangle the hairs of brides
or mourn their clothing hovering
over a field of rags half-rotted shoes..."
Rothenberg, Jerome. “Dibbukim (Dibbiks).” Khurbn & Other Poems. New York: New Directions, 1989. p. 13.
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New Directions Books
“These things must be well understood because even though you pass, you accept treaties and countries ratify those treaties, the real change, which must give to people throughout the world their human rights, must come about in the hearts of people.
We must want our fellow human beings to have rights and freedoms which give them dignity and which will give them a sense that they are human beings that can walk the earth with their heads high and look all men in the face.”
Roosevelt, Eleanor. "Speech on Human Rights." Transcript of Speech for Human Rights Day, St. Louis, 1951.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
“Our prayer today is one of gratitude, Oh, Lord, that peace has come to bless the earth, but above all, we pray for wisdom and for the spirit of love in the hearts of men, for without that spirit, wisdom will avail us little.”
Roosevelt, Eleanor. “Speech on V-J Day.” Speech at Columbia Broadcasting Project, September 2, 1945, in Allida Black, The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Vol. 1: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948.
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Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
“Especially awe inspiring is the fact that any single brain, including yours, is made up of atoms that were forged in the hearts of countless, far-flung stars billions of years ago. These particles drifted for eons and light-years until gravity and chance brought them here, now.”
Ramachandran, V. S. The Tell-tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011. p. 4.
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W.W. Norton