… the fisherman’s daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.
Yiannis RitsosCarpe diem.Seize the day, boys.
Make your lives extraordinary
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the next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it. The odds are that it will fall into a regular metrical pattern.
Annie FinchWant of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?
Wendell BerryAll good poems are victories over something.
Stephen DunnWhen there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger;
invisible hands draw back the curtains,
a pallid finger writes forgotten words on dust
of the piano...
. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.
Major Jackson. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight.
A.E. StallingsThere’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money, either
Robert GravesThe bats inebriate the sky . . .
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