#poetry

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry. ↗

— Laurie Lee

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I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. ↗

— Annie Lennox

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I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. ↗

— Philip Levine

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Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice. ↗

— Philip Levine

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My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. ↗

— Philip Levine

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Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. ↗

— Philip Levine

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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. ↗

— Philip Levine

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Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. ↗

— Joshua Logan

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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. ↗

— Audre Lorde

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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

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