Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.

'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.

How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson