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“The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.”

Writing Trying Poetry Dies Language Poet Standards Sentences

Author:Janet Fitch

“Do not go gentle into that good night.”

“What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.”

Way Writing Looks Heart Doe Might Moving Poetry Dies Secret Saws Flower Terrible Beats Screens Opening Poetry Is Vivid Closing Heart Beat What Is Poetry

Author:Elizabeth Smart

“A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.”

World May Children Used Poetry Dies Literature Language Understanding Sound Tears Ill Shed Dolls Heartfelt Scrap Rags Bundles Children Playing

Author:Velimir Khlebnikov

“Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.”

Death Poetry Dies Black Feet Poet Dust Buried Trumpets All Black

Book:The Essential Etheridge Knight

Source: The Essential Etheridge Knight

“It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.”

Giving Seems Poetry Dies Passion Stars Sex Poet Goes On Mood Intense Odd Burned Verses

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

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Author:Langston Hughes

“It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”

Men Poetry Dies Found Difficult News

Author:William Carlos Williams

“Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.”

Death Poetry Dies Language Dying Expression Poetry Is Intensity Justified

Book:Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

Source: Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

“Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”

Knows Want Inspirational Needs Poetry Certain Dies Prayer Secret Wonderful Solitude Safe Nervous Broken Heart Hiding Hiding Place Before I Die

Book:Take Me With You

Source: Take Me With You

“I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.”

Ifs Love Should Believe Earth Poetry Dies I Believe Walks Sadness Sad Depth Graves Footsteps Forever Love

Author:Benito Perez Galdos

“And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.”

Littles Poetry Dies Morning Study Poet Toads Baudelaire

Book:Last & Lost Poems

Source: Last & Lost Poems

“We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.”

Ifs Believe Soul Poetry Dies Fate Sea Sky Land Please Raises Arise Unwind

Book:Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015

Source: Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015