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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 37 -
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
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Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
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