" I wrote poems secretly, hiding my notebooks in my closet. I thought about killing myself, because those poems knew that I was gay. "
"Medicine for years said AIDS was a gay disease. Government waited several more years before a president said AIDS in public."
" So I am grateful for the poetry that is written about AIDS, in that it has helped me so generously to locate myself in a world irrevocably altered by the presence of the virus."
" I have lost myself the same way in the faces, the bodies, and the poems of people with AIDS. I see them teaching us, each one of us, the meaning of our own losses. Teaching us that every word is true. "
I believe this quote to be extremely inspirational. "I have lost myself the same way in the faces, the bodies, and the poems of people with AIDS. I see them teaching us, each one of us, the meaning of our own losses. Teaching us that every word is true." I believe we learn the most from our losses and this quote supports my belief. Every word we hear about AIDS, such as pain and suffering, are just descriptions of one's pain. However, the pain is indescribable and people are truly unaware of the pain suffering.
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