I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
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I should not alter in my faith of him. BEN JONSON Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
... BEN JONSON Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin. BEN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine. BEN FRANKLIN It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work... BEN LINDSEY than any other man who ever ran for office in Denver. BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something ha... BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something h... BEN LINDSEY Do your best and let God do the rest. BEN CARSON Force works on servile natures, not the free. BEN JOHNSON Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... BEN BROWN We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda... BEN OLIVEIRA Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. BEN OKRI Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give. BEN CARSON 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg... BEN JONSON Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them. BEN JOHNSTON Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st... BEN SWEETLAND The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. BEN HERBSTER Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done. BEN STEIN In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace. BEN HECHT You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru... BEN VEREEN Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ... BEN JOHNSON He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity BEN JONSON I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri... BEN KINGSLEY I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. BEN HOGAN Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first. BEN JIPCHO