"Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is."

Poetry, Ecstasy, Practice, Spiritual

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"Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is."

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"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."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The lamp hummed:'Regard the moon,La lune ne garde aucune rancune,She winks a feeble eye,She smiles into corners.She smoothes the hair of the grass.The moon has lost her memory.A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,Her hand twists a paper rose,That smells of dust and old Cologne,She is aloneWith all the old nocturnal smellsThat cross and cross across her brain."The reminiscence comesOf sunless dry geraniumsAnd dust in crevices,Smells of chestnuts in the streets,And female smells in shuttered rooms,And cigarettes in corridorsAnd cocktail smells in bars."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Poetry, Moon, Memory, Night, Nostalgia

"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Poetry, Time, Feelings, Being

"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Poetry, Movement, Memory, Time

"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

Poetry, Sound, Art, Expression, Creativity

"True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, British Musician

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"Consciousness is the glory of creation."

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"Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite."

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"I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic."

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"Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open."

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"Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers."

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"In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets."

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"Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema."

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"Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater."

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"The American public does not know poets exist."

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"I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action."

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