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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."
"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."
"Poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light."
"Some winterswill never meltsome summerswill never freezeand some things will only... live in poems."
"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."
"Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow."
"My love is a winter's mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck."
Explore more quotes by Dennis Potter
"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."
"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"
"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."
"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."
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