#poet

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#america #attention #i #i see #paying

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#could #doing #found #had #handle

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#ideas #poetry #really #sharing #way

I now know how your anger came from skeletons that rattled in your heart and you couldn't escape them. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#escape #haunted #memory #poetry #skeletons

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#little #made #making #matter #obsessed

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ↗