"Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools."

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"Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools."

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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Nature, Instinct, Law, Rules

"In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Nature, Imagery, Fire, Atmosphere

"Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done-peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Nature, Inspirational, Truth, Happiness, Power

"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Nature, Mind, Self

"Custom is second nature."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

Nature, Custom, Saint Aurelius Augustine, Roman

"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Nature, Morning, Light, Beauty

"Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear,do not fear,she will be."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Nature, Imagination, Truth, Hope, Fantasy

"In the summer heat the reapers say, "We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."

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"You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it."

Time

"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."

Poems

"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."

God

"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."

Poetry

"We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future."

Time

"I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have."

Creativity

"I feel very connected to poets across the country."

Nation

"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."

Poet

"Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem."

Art

"The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight."

Hope