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"I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read."
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"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."

"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."

"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."

"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."

"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."

"My soul is wrapped in harsh repose,Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes,But soft... behold!A sunlight beamButting a swath of glimmering gleam.My heart expands,'tis grown a bulge in it,Inspired by your beauty...Effulgent."
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"Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I'm not ashamed of my illness. I've been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too."

"Every day in life we're told who this is and who that is. But when we sit we're all the same when we remove our hat."

"If I wouldn't have spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher, I'd know how to punctuate. Good thing I normally write poetry."

"I'm half way to Heaven and half way to Hell with each breath I take in this mortal shell."

"Take a giant drink of natures endless stream let it spout from your mouth in words so serene."

"I'll never leave this Earth without a fight or at least pretend to for all of those in sight."

"Why do they always prescribe thyroid medicine to go with the mental illness cocktails they whip up?"

"Yes I'm Bipolar but I'm as normal as you except the times when my mind thinks like two."
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