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poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry. Charles Dickens
poetry mind body
Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Camille Paglia
poetry wish way
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
poetry essentials needs
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it. Edward Hirsch
poetry use would-be
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion. Edith Sitwell
poetry humanity
We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
poetry silence never-quit
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Charles Simic
poetry
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it. Natasha Trethewey
poetry teach
poetry had everything to teach me about life. Diane Ackerman
wrote
I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before. Kent Haruf
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Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.
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My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. Alice Walker
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In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century. William Gibson
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too. Natalie Babbitt
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. Gail Carson Levine
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I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months. Kathryn Harrison
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I wrote my first short story in third grade. Jennifer McMahon
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I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment. Randy Alcorn