#poetry

I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. ↗

— Peter Davison

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But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most. ↗

— Peter Davison

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But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. ↗

— Peter Davison

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I see a bird carrying me and carrying you, with us as its wings, beyond the dream, to a journey that has no end and no beginning, no purpose and no goal. I do not speak to you, and you do not speak to me; we listen only to the music of silence. Silence is the friend's trust of friend, imagination's self-confidence between rain and rainbow. A rainbow is inspiration provoking the poet, uninvited, the infatuation of the poet with the prose of the Quran. Which of your Lord's blessings do you disown? We are absent, you and I; we are present, you and I. And absent. Which of your Lord's blessings do you disown? ↗

— Mahmoud Darwish

#dreams

If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury") ↗

— Audre Lorde

#dreams

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. ↗

— James Dickey

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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. ↗

— James Dickey

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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. ↗