#poetry

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. ↗

— Vanessa Redgrave

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To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery. ↗

— Nicole Brossard

#poetry #beauty

The moment of change is the only poem. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

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I write poetry in order to live more fully. ↗

— Judith Rodriguez

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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. ↗

— Laura Riding

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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendos The blackbird whistling Or just after. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#beauty

If there is passion, let me feel its heat. I want my heart to beat fast, my breath raspy, my skin to burn. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#beauty #discovery #love #lust #passion

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out. ↗

— Richard Rosen

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The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. ↗

— Erik Satie

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