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The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.
-Umberto Eco
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The Poets Did Not Win; The Philosophers

Umberto Eco
The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.
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I win, you win. you win, i win. the gun, i win. the fruit, you win. i win, you win.
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One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. the good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. a good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.
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I just said let's get some poets on tv. and when they said that sounded unlikely, i made it worse. i said, no man, i want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too. some latino poets who barely speak english and asian poets who can't believe how discriminated against they are. it was luck nad being in the right place. i wasn't saying nothing somebody else wasn't saying but they wouldn't hear it from them.
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When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom; we have surrendered its only real meaning, and we will not be free again until we get it back.
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And even if we win, if we win, hah! even if we win! even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if god in heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field; even if every man woman and child held hands together and prayed for us to win, it just wouldn't matter because all the really good looking girls would still go out with the guys from mohawk because they've got all the money! it just doesn't matter if we win or we lose. it just doesn't matter! it just doesn't matter! it just doesn't matter!
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