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There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.

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Edward Hirsch

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

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Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

Adventure, Creative, Reading, Wonder

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

Different, Products, Speech, Use, Words

Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us in the art of making meaning. It widens the space of our inner lives. It is a magical, mysterious, inexplicable (though not incomprehensible) event in language.

Art, Feelings, Giving, Space, Though

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

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Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.

Appeal, Essentials, Needs, Poetry, Swells, Wanes
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