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We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.

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Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.

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Isabel Quintero

Poetry helps heal wounds.Makes them tangible.At the poetry reading I reada poem.A prophecy I wrote down. Almost couldn’t go through with it.But it came outhurried and hotand by the endmy tongue was on fire.

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It was curious what trying to speak English had done lately to his mind; it reminded him of studying poetry in college, words gaining and losing their meaning, overlapping with images, the curious echo of ideas behind the words people used.

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For that you should read the original. In very great poetry the music often comes through even when one doesn’t know language. I loved Dante passionately before I knew a word of Italian.

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If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you’re still wandering around in the dictionary, you probably have the most basic equipment you need to be a poet.

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I did not foresee my words becoming such a reverie of mimic and refrain.

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I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language – a happiness we were born to have.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language is fossil Poetry.

language, poetry

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language – a happiness we were born to have.

language, poetry

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language is fossil Poetry.

language, poetry