Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
Game Is Not Over - 2005 Oxford Union Address http://www.jeclique.com/onoweb/news-oxfordjune2005.html
"Full of Humility"
Road To Madinah (1998)
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
Game Is Not Over - 2005 Oxford Union Address http://www.jeclique.com/onoweb/news-oxfordjune2005.html
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
President Obama Speaks on the Explosions in Boston (15 April 2013) http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/04/15/president-obama-speaks-explosions-boston <br class="br">2013
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist
Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 169; part of this statement is also used in the "Introduction"
Context: In time of the crises of the spirit, we are aware of all of need, our need for each other and our need for ourselves. We call up our fullness; we turn, and act. We begin to be aware of correspondences, of the acknowledgement in us of necessity, and of the lands.
And poetry, among all this — where is there a place for poetry?
If poetry as it comes to us through action were all we had, it would be very much. For the dense and crucial moments, spoken under the stress of realization, full-bodied and compelling in their imagery, arrive with music, with our many kinds of theatre, and in the great prose. If we had these only, we would be open to the same influences, however diluted and applied. For these ways in which poetry reaches past the barriers set up by our culture, reaching toward those who refuse it in essential presence, are various, many-meaning, and certainly — in this period — more acceptable. They stand in the same relation to poetry as applied science to pure science.
Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress
Talkin' 2 Myself
Lyrics, Guilty
Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886) Irish bishop
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 467.
Hermann Bondi (1919–2005) British mathematician and cosmologist
Hermann Bondi, Assumption and Myth in Physical Theory, (1967) p. 11
“Why should we become like you? We pride ourselves on not being like you.”
Robert Silverberg book The World Inside
Source: The World Inside (1971), Chapter 6 (p. 451)
Billie Joe Armstrong (1972) American singer and guitarist
Reported in Q Magazine interview - Jan 2015