“... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.”
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“...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.”
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“expect sadness
like
you expect rain.
both,
cleanse you.”
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like
you expect rain.
both,
cleanse you.”
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