Raging Rhetoric

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Every angel is terrifying.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
― Dylan Thomas