#poetry

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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Poetry lies its way to the truth. ↗

— John Ciardi

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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#available #deeply #effective #every #headline

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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