“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.
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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.
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It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.
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