There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
So many poems you go into and come up empty.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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