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Quote by Jim Harrison

“Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.”

Work

In this gripping thriller, a small community is enveloped in an eerie atmosphere as a series of unsettling events unfolds. As the night deepens, the townspeople find themselves entangled in a web of secrets and danger, with the darkness serving as a backdrop to their harrowing journey. more

Author

Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison was an American author born on December 11, 1937, and passed away on March 26, 2016. Known for his poetry, novels, and essays, his works have been widely appreciated by readers. more

“Men do not live by truth alone; they also need lies: those that they invent freely, not those that are imposed on them; those that appear as they are, not smuggled in beneath the clothes of history. Fiction enriches their existence, completes them and, fleetingly, compensates them for this tragic condition which is our lot: always to desire and dream more than we can actually achieve.”

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Book:Making Waves: Essays

Source: Making Waves: Essays

“I hate that rule that says write about what you know, it leads to too many British novels about marriages going slightly wrong. Write about what you don't know, just act as though you do.”

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Author:Jeff Noon

“Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.”

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Author:Sharon Olds

“The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.”

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