You write poetry?" Klaus asked.
He had read a lot about poets but had never met one.
"Just a little bit," Isadora said modestly. "I write poems down in this notebook. It's an interest of mine."
"Sappho!" Sunny shrieked, which meant something like, "I'd be very pleased to hear a poem of yours!

Lemony Snicket

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If passion was a substance I would say it is dark brown, and then blood red. It's like wet grass, tons of it soaked in mud. It's warm and it stinks like shit and it's unaccountably and endlessly good. It's thick and it goes on for miles and it isn't so much deep as bottomless and it holds you in its grip, you never drown. And then it goes. That's all you know.

Eileen Myles

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Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing

Sylvia Plath

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Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality.

M.F. Moonzajer

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Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.

Federico García Lorca

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Create with the heart; build with the mind.

Criss Jami

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He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!

Darnaya Darice

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Another breath, left to translate

Susan Voth

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I was born with my eyes turned inward.

David Joseph Cribbin

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To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.

William S. Burroughs

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