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“Good poets are those able to gaze into the darkness of their own hearts. A vivid or beautiful poem is not necessarily a good poem. Poetry that doesn’t stand side by side with the reader has no real power.”

Book:From the Fatherland, with Love

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“I try to be as kind to poetry as I can... the expectation of the poem is much higher. People really expect to read seven lines, and walk away from that better. They want to be healed. People really think, "Oh, here's a poem, OK, let's see what you gonna do. Fix me." You don't go watch Alvin Ailey thinking "fix me." You don't go to the museum thinking "give me wisdom.”

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Author:Jericho Brown

“I called you my home You left me searching for the keys - All alone”

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Book:SHE: In A Nutshell

Source: SHE: In A Nutshell

“The allurement and the excitement that only poets and artists entice each other with!”

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Author:Avijeet Das

“Tis not the greatest singer Who tries the loftiest themes, He is the true joy bringer, Who tells his simplest dreams. He is the greatest poet, Who will renounce all art, And take his heart and show it To every other heart; Who writes no learned riddle, But sings his simplest rune, Takes his heart strings for a fiddle, And plays his easiest tune ~ Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911) [From Back Country Poems, 1892]”

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Book:Back Country Poems

Source: Back Country Poems

“Painting is the science of the mind, where we create something new from confusion and present beauties with colors, Poetry is the best form of painting mostly overlooked, and the mind's painters uses coruscations of brilliancy to present different images by words”

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Author:Oluseyi Akinbami

“The man was high yellow In public, afraid of himself, pretending his music Was material when in fact, it was the opposite: Like a breath that comes so quickly you know You’re breathing ether: either atmospheric And anonymous as the air against a window, Or indefinite & mute as a curtain of wind.”

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Book:American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Source: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

“I sat at the kitchen table, staring at the blind white blankness in front of me, and slowly, like a clear spring welling up from the common earth, the poem rose and spread and filled me, unstoppable as flood water, technique unknotting even as it ran, like snags rolled away on the flood. When it comes, it is worth everything in the world.”

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Author:Mary Stewart

“Pedersen was always wooing her. Sometimes he was gracious and kind, but at other times when his failure wearied him he would be cruel and sardonic, with a suggestive tongue whose vice would have scourged her were it not that Marie was impervious, or too deeply inured to mind it. She always grinned at him and fobbed him off with pleasantries, whether he was amorous or acrid. 'God Almighty,' he would groan, 'she is not good for me, this Marie. What can I do for her? She is burning me alive and the Skaggerack could not quench me, not all of it. The devil! What can I do with this? Some day I shall smash her across the eyes, yes, across the eyes.' So you see the man really loved her. ("The Tiger")”

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Book:Dusky Ruth and Other Stories

Source: Dusky Ruth and Other Stories

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