#poetry

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. ↗

— David Hare

#nature #poetry

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. ↗

— Alfred Edward Housman

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There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. ↗

— Philip Levine

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I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. ↗

— Margaret Walker

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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are. ↗

— Julio Cortazar

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to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go ↗

— Mary Oliver

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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

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I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry. ↗

— Jane Campion

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