107 Quotes by Robin Morgan

Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.