Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.

~ Federico García Lorca

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Today I introduced myself to my very own Heart,In silent agony, after all these years it bled apart.

~ Ankita Singhal

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The moon twangs its silver strings;The river swoons into town;The wind beds down in the pines,Covers itself with stars.

~ George Elliott Clarke

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In school, I hated poetry - those skinny,Malnourished poems that professors love;The bad grammar and dirty words that catchIn the mouth like fishhooks, tear holes in speech.Pablo, your words are rain I run through,Grass I sleep in.

~ George Elliott Clarke

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I listen to the rainfall, my words wanna flow!Droplets run down the wall,where do they go?Letters in the raw,mesh together for the show!

~ Leslie Austin

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Another breath, left to translate

~ Susan Voth

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I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian.

~ Alysia Harris

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So Lightning says to Mud,“What would happen if I struck your blood?”And Mud says, “Brother, It would hurt, And make me the motherOf every living thing.But, Fire Boy, you ain’t lifting my grass skirtUntil you burn me a ring.

~ Sherman Alexie

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My cup is yellowOr not, though not'sImpossibleIt's yellow

~ Aram Saroyan

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Sure, we thought the acresThat we tilled were sacred,But how could we have knownThat wheat can haunt like ghosts

~ Sherman Alexie

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Walk the midway and hear the carnival barker.Come see the freak named after his deceased father.Come see the prince who wants to abdicate his throne.Come see the son whose name is carved on a gravestone.

~ Sherman Alexie

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A short poem from my book:PerspectiveOf coursethere is a hellshe saidand it hasan observation deck,so I maystand and waveto all those kindsouls belowwho warned meI would go there.

~ Michelle Hartman

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Today I write,riots with insite!Tomorrow I read,take the lead!Sometimes I sleep, health to keep!But for now I write,and got no gripe!

~ Leslie Austin

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My heart is lost, the beasts have eaten it.

~ Charles Baudelaire

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And you know what the worst thing was?The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.

~ Jack Mccarthy

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Better off dead than giving in, not taking what you want.

~ Carol Ann Duffy

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I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little universe. It exists separately. Any poem that has any worth expresses the whole life of the poet. It gives a view of what the poet is.

~ William Carlos Williams

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...feel the fierce way desiretourniquets itself around you andclingsClubland South of Market tweak-chic trannies powder their noses frombullet-shaped compacts and flick their forkedtongues like switchblades as they burn the nightdown bleed day to night to day toMission sidewalks where pythons hidetwenty dollar balloons beneath their tongues whichget bartered in smiles quicker than a coke buzz andtossed out through the cracksCottonmouth kissescamouflage emotions andstrike with a vengeancewhen hewants and shewants and theywant and Iwon'tGenet was right, I supposewhen he wrote The only wayto avoid the horror of horror isto give in to itit'sthe nature ofthe economy of thebusiness it's thenature ofthings...

~ Clint Catalyst

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Shine and shimmer my Harvest Moon,illuminate the shadows in the sky.

~ A.f. Stewart

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Love leads us to write poetry because love improves our hearing; like prayer, poetry is every bit as much about listening as it is about speaking. To 'get' the poem is to hear the eloquence of the silence that it calls forth through its manifestation of love.

~ David Patterson

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Secure in his flightRider on the constant windsHawk flies through his daysLooks then to the eastPrompted by fate’s gentle breezeChanges his intentFate’s gentle breezesMove the mighty heart to changeDestiny remade

~ Steve Robison

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That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings.

~ Jay Asher

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The children walk away from me, flick flickety off at a tangent between thin blotched beech trunks, then turn like yo-yos at the end of their strings and come back to me from the poem In a BishopsWood Clearing

~ Jay Woodman

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From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside.

~ Rita Dove

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Up the still, glistening beaches,Up the creeks we will hie,Over banks of bright seaweedThe ebb-tide leaves dry.We will gaze, from the sand-hills,At the white, sleeping town;At the church on the hill-side—And then come back down.Singing: There dwells a loved one,But cruel is she!She left lonely for everThe kings of the sea.(from poem 'The Forsaken Merman')

~ Matthew Arnold

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I went out to the hazel woodbecause a fire was in my headcut and peeled a hazel wandand hooked a berry to a threadand when white moths were on the wingand moth-like stars were flickering outI dropped the berry in a stream,and caught a little silver trout....(Song of Wandering Aengus)

~ W.b. Yeats

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Keep Moving...Move forwardLet go Give inDecideand just DoProgress every dayAnd make one step forward no matter what's in your wayKeep moving, till one day you wake up and you're there.

~ Emma Daley

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For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both alike was evocation of energies and knowledge from beyond normal consciousness.

~ Kathleen Raine

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There is an Anglo-Saxon form of riddling that plays with the polarities of words like bright and dark, cold and warm, throwing them against one another and crafting lines of rich, humorous nonsense like this poem that has been around for so many hundreds of years that you just have to sit back and, with nothing else in mind, laugh out loud. 

~ Gerald Hausman

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Experience taught me that when pride wins... we all lose.

~ Alfa H

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I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the word poetry to mean--in order to cover a desperate wish for imagination without insight.For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

~ Audre Lorde

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I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had assigned in college, where the line breaks were replaced with slashes, so that what was communicated was less a particular poem than the echo of poetic possibility. Insofar as I was interested in the arts, I was interested in the disconnect between my experience of actual artworks and the claims made on their behalf; the closest I'd come to having a profound experience of art was probably the experience of this distance, a profound experience of the absence of profundity.

~ Ben Lerner

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Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.

~ Lenore Kandel

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I do not have more information after reading a poem, I have more experience.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

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Oh, Youth may listen patiently,While sad Experience tells her tale,But Doubt sits smiling in his eye,For ardent Hope will still prevail!He hears how feeble Pleasure dies,By guilt destroyed, and pain and woe;He turns to Hope—and she replies,“Believe it not-it is not so!

~ Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë Experience Hope Life Poetry

Spirituality is the poetry of our experience. Science is the gauge of our reality. Together, they create the essence of our humanity.

~ Steve Maraboli

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I did not foresee my words becoming such a reverie of mimic and refrain.

~ Joshua Kryah

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If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you're still wandering around in the dictionary, you probably have the most basic equipment you need to be a poet.

~ Billy Collins

Billy Collins Language Poetry

For that you should read the original. In very great poetry the music often comes through even when one doesn't know language. I loved Dante passionately before I knew a word of Italian.

~ Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt Language Poetry

You are the language so universalyou are forgottenBe my linguistTurn meinto your words.

~ Bänoo Zan

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