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“I think I would like to be a word - not a big important word, like "love" or "truth," just a small ordinary word, like "orange" or "inkstain" or "so," a word that people use so often and so unthinkingly that its specialness has all been worn away like the roughness on a pebble in a creekbed, but that has a solid heft when you pick it up, and if you hold it to the light at just the right angle you can glimpse the spark at its core.”

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Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt is an American poet, critic, and writer known for her incisive political commentary and poetry, which often addresses themes of feminism, gender, politics, and social justice. more

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