"Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity."

Poetry, Divinity, Art, State

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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Poetry, Body, Fire

"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."

William Shenstone, English Poet

Poetry,

"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."

Roger McGough, British Poet

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"The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

Poetry, Twilight, Loneliness, Nature, Beauty

"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does."

Allen Ginsberg, American Poet

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"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

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"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

Poetry, Fiction, Past

"Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate."

John Denham, British Politician

Poetry, Language, Spirit, Will

"Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear."

Helen Dunmore, British Poet

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"Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst."

Nature

"I want to be in love with youthe same wayi am in love with the moonwith the lightshiningout of its soul."

Love

"How can i everbreathe normally againafter having been cradledby the kind of sorrowso silent, that it nourishesafter having been sweptby the kind of joyso absolute, that it wounds."

Emotion

"One clear moment, one of trance One missed step, one perfect dance One missed shot, one and only chance Life is all...but one fleeting glance."

Perspective

"There is somethingmystically sadand beautifulabouthowi will neversee youagainbut meet youagain and againin poetry."

Memory

"Moonlight disappears down the hillsmountains vanish into fogand i vanish into poetry."

Nature

"For it is up to you and meto take solacein nostalgia's armsand our abilityto create the everlastingfrom fleeting moments."

Reflection

"I immersemyselfin youlikei immerse myselfinto a beautiful story."

Relationship

"Sometimes i am not sure.if i am writing the poemor the poemis writing me."

Creativity

"You wereand always will bethat first ever touchto have fertilizedthe groundbeneath my life's treesthat first ever roseto have fragrancedthe rest of my memories."

Sentiment