Sam Hamill Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• Nothing will change until we demolish the "we-they" mentality. We are human, and therefore all human concerns are ours. And those concerns are personal.

  Sam Hamill

  Humanity, Concern, Humans

• We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there is a not-knowingness, I think, that leads us back to suffering humanity with a more compassionate vision than most of our politicians have.

  Sam Hamill

  Art, Thinking, Humanity

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

• My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out of the practice of poetry, as does my Buddhist practice. Poetry is a very important element in the history of Buddhism in general and in Zen in particular. It was really Zen that motivated me to change the way I perceive the world.

  Sam Hamill

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Compassion

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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