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Jeanette Winterson

"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."

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Donna Grant

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

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Donna Grant

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

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Donna Grant

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

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Donna Grant

"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

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Donna Grant

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

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Donna Grant

"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."

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Donna Grant

"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"

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Donna Grant

"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

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Jeanette Winterson
"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

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Jeanette Winterson
"The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it's the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world."

Love

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Jeanette Winterson
"I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion."

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Jeanette Winterson
"Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself."

Life

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Jeanette Winterson
"However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience."

Love

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Jeanette Winterson
"The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct."

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Jeanette Winterson
"We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then."

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Jeanette Winterson
"You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?"

Time

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Jeanette Winterson
"One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life."

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Jeanette Winterson
"I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle."

Truth

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