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“Built a poem, we kept a rhyme. Wrapped our love in golden twine. We wrote a legacy, just you and me.” – Vanessa Carlton

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“Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die. I don’t belong, and my beloved, neither do you. Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry. I’m setting off, but not without my muse.” – Taylor Swift

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“Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You’ve got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you’ve got to burn away all the peripherals.”
– Sylvia Plath

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“I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.” – Marguerite Yourcenar

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“No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?” – Marina Tsvetaeva

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“When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate.”
– Florence Welch

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“Are we not like two volumes of one book?”
– Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

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“I love poetry, and all kinds… I love the range of things that speak directly to me. It’s a mysterious doing, you know. It’s not just intellectual. If it were, all the really smart people would be poets.” – Lucille Clifton

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“The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.” – Louise Gluck

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“Poetry is never compromise. It is the manifestation/translation of a vision, an illumination, an experience. If you compromise your vision, you become a blind prophet.”
– Lenore Kandel

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“All around me are words, and words and words. They grow on me like leaves. They never seem to stop their slow growing from within.”
– Kamala Surayya

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“Poetry is the voice of what can’t be spoken, the mode of truth-telling when meaning needs to rise above or skim below everyday language in shapes not discernible by the ordinary mind.”
– Joy Harjo

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“From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar.” – Jhumpa Lahiri

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“My poem is life, and not finished. It shall never be finished. My poem is life and can grow. Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out and do the best it can. I give you what I have.”
– Gwendolyn Brooks

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“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.” – George Sand

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“I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat… What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.” – Gabriela Mistral

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“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
– Emily Dickinson

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“Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It’s the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.” – Ellen Hopkins

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“Poetry has been to me as serious a thing as life itself – and life has been a very serious thing.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly,
Like midsummer moths, and honied words like bees,
Gilded and sticky, with a little sting.”
– Elinor Wylie

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