#poe

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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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest. ↗

— Laura Riding

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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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Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

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I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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