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A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out…
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...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted…
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Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
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Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in…
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I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves
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In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he…
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Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which…
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I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on…
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Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and…
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One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one…
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Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
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Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American…
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The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
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The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks.…
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One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at…
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When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
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Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
— Edward Hirsch
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In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get…
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If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more…
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In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
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I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative…
— Jesmyn Ward
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Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from…
— J. Courtney Sullivan
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Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
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