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“At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there.”

Poetry Prayer Poet Spring Flames Drank Apollo Delphi

Book:Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.”

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.”

Poetry Prayer Poet Various Paradigm Prosody

Book:Selected Poems 1930-1988

Source: Selected Poems 1930-1988

“Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.”

Writing Humans Use Language Stars Black Prayer Results Poet Command Vulnerable Sentiments Efficient Elegance Urgent Use Of Language

Author:Kwame Dawes

“Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.”

World Language Prayer Poet Broken Ambition Clothes Praise Dresses Remains Profound Extraordinary Heroic Delicate Honorable Gracious Eloquent Broken World

Author:David St. John

“I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer, I believe that it's our task, our responsibility, to hold the mirror up to social injustices that we see and to create a prayer of beauty. The questions serve us in that capacity.”

Thinking Believe Said Moving I Believe Social Prayer Answers Responsibility Poet Capacity Tasks Mirrors Injustice Social Injustice

Author:Terry Tempest Williams