#poetry

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

#i #poetry #tranquillity #want

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. ↗

— James Dickey

#garland #judy #judy garland #poetry #she

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

— Emily Dickinson

#head #i #i feel #know #off

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

— Denis Diderot

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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something. ↗

— Rita Dove

#ecstasy #feel #i #i feel #me

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#curriculum #deal #enabling #help #i

It's not easy to define poetry. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#easy #poetry

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#being #competitions #creative #creative writing #enter

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life. ↗

— C.D. Wright

#life