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“At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.”

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Author:Andre Breton

“We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni Mitchell] will write exactly what she lives. If she puts some money in the soda machine, she'll write about putting money in the soda machine. "Dry Cleaner from Des Moines," on the Shadows & Light album, was about sitting next to a dry cleaner from Des Moines, playing a slot machine.”

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Author:Don Alias

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”

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Author:Carl Sandburg

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

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Author:Pablo Neruda

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”

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Book:Poetry as Insurgent Art

Source: Poetry as Insurgent Art

“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”

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Book:Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His Poetry and Letters and an Estimate of His Genius and Talents, Compared with Those of His Great Contemporaries. Enlarged to Two Volumes

Source: Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His Poetry and Letters and an Estimate of His Genius and Talents, Compared with Those of His Great Contemporaries. Enlarged to Two Volumes

“Starry Starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land.”

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Author:Don McLean

“Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.”

Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“If you ever come back, I will tell you: The sun is closer to you than I will ever be. So burn, if you wish. You will not see the shadow of me even if you become the sun yourself.”

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Book:The Nectar of Pain

Source: The Nectar of Pain