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To: Poet who wrote (1320)	11/21/2005 12:21:19 AM
From: MJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1582

The London Times has an article about the death of a woman poet in Afghanistan. Her book is Dark Flower. Speculation exists as to whether or not she was killed because of her verse, ------poetry forbidden for a woman to write----or committed suicide. Rather dangerous to be a woman poet there.

To: Poet who wrote (1320)	3/12/2009 7:56:13 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1582

"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern — of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?" - Richard Feynman