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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."
"The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?"
"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."
"I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple - or a green field - a place to enter, and in which to feel. Only in a secondary way is it an intellectual thing - an artifact, a moment of seemly and robust wordiness -wonderful as that part of it is. I learned that the poem was made not just to exist, but to speak -to be company. It was everything that was needed, when everything was needed."
"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."
Explore more quotes by Emily Dickinson
"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."
"I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there 's a pair of us-don't tell! They 'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!"
"Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it proved it proves too There was no Melody."
"Heart, we will forget him,You and I, tonight!You must forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the light."
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