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Quote by Eamon Grennan

“All we’re trying to do is word the world. Detail is one way we do that. We enumerate, notate, name the things seen.”

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Eamon Grennan is an Irish poet renowned for his concise and profound poetry style. His works often explore themes of nature, memory, and the human condition, earning him praise from readers and critics alike. more

“If rewriting equals rereading, we must logically conclude that writing is reading. If this is indeed the case, how could we possibly write under a ban on reading? The only way left is mouth-to-mouth – poets and storytellers recite their pieces and before we can commit them to memory, everything vanishes into thin air.”

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Author:Kyoko Yoshida

“Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning—We will all make it through, despite politics and wars, despite failures and misunderstandings. There is only love.”

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Book:Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

Source: Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

“Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.”

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Book:Jude the Obscure

Source: Jude the Obscure

“She day-dreams just as I do. She is addicted to her solitude just as I am. She loves watching the rain-drops fall slowly on to the green leaves of an old guava tree just as I do. She loves drifting in time and time travel just as I do. She loves looking at the waves dashing against the rocks just as I do.”

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Author:Avijeet Das

“poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?”

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Book:Selected Poetry

Source: Selected Poetry

“Even when the lights go out, even when someone says to me: "It's over---," even when from the stage a gray gust of emptiness drifts toward me, even when not one silent ancestor sits beside me anymore---not a woman, not even the boy with the brown squint-eye: I'll sit here anyway. One can always watch.”

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Book:Duino Elegies

Source: Duino Elegies

“It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include preachers, musicians, and blues singers).”

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Book:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“What a poet I am. Like T S Eliot but with better boobs.”

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Book:The Exact Opposite of Okay

Source: The Exact Opposite of Okay

“We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice in the interpretation of a word. And each time they make one of these choices, they are taken further from the truth. But what we aren’t told is that this isn’t a shortcoming of translation; it’s a shortcoming of language itself. As soon as we try to put reality into words, we limit it. Words are not reality, they are the cause of reality, and thus reality is always more. Writers aren't alchemists who transmute words into the aurous essence of the human experience. No, they are glassmakers. They create a work of art that enables us to see inside to help us understand. And if they are really good, we can see our own reflections staring back at us.”

Quote by Eamon Grennan

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