We have been living in times in which human cruelty is all … - Marge Piercy

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We have been living in times in which human cruelty is all around us. Yet the world is very beautiful.

Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is a Jewish American poet, novelist, and social activist.

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If only I could tell each of them how much more fully I could love them now. I could give them, not the dutiful, selfish and perfunctory love of an adolescent, but an understanding love that would lighten their terrible burdens. (p253)

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

Poems told me there were other people who felt the way I felt. That was validation for the person I was. Poems can mean survival.

We have been living in times in which human cruelty is all around us. Yet the world is very beautiful. - Marge Piercy

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