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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

Time held no meaning as my mind darted in and out of memories. Past and present collided to create a full-sensory collage out of my life: playing hide-n-seek with my best friends Luke—who always cheated by walking through walls when he was about to be caught—and Lucy; Mr. Caldrin critiquing my sketches and offering ideas to make them more realistic; targets changing faces, blending into the same person, their thoughts rippling through my mind like waves. Through it all, a demon stalked me from the shadows of my memories, never quite showing its face, but crouching, waiting. And then I dreamed....


Kimberly Kinrade


#poetic-prose #change

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


#must #poetry #something #vast #wild

Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows Follow sweet children I'll show thee the way through all the pain and the Sorrows Weep not poor childlen for life is this way murdering beauty and Passions Hush now dear children it must be this way to weary of life and Deceptions Rest now my children for soon we'll away into the calm and the Quiet Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows


Edgar Allan Poe


#poetry #poetry-quotes #thriller #beauty

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.


Rita Dove


#enjoy #i #i love #lots #love

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.


Rita Dove


#come #curriculum #early #get #instead

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