- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
- Failed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
- Exchange
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exchange is creation.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
The journey is my home.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The town of Gauley Bridge stands as a pattern for all those places where people are linked even in the middle of their suffering, where people fight against an evil condition so that other people need not go through the same fight.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should like to use another word: 'audience' or 'reader' or 'listener' seems inadequate. I suggest the old word 'witness,' which includes the act of seeing and knowing by personal experience, as well as the act of giving evidence.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the single image, as used in a photograph or a painting - or the frame of a film - to which words have been added to enlarge the context. The method is not the same as that by which most paintings are named. It is closer in its performance to what dialogue does to a movie, to what the caption does to a good poster.
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020