What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.
What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
My lifetime listens to yours.
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.
A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.
The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout. Another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem.
Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
Reality is the completion of experience.
Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
Try to live as if there were a God
One writes in order to feel.
The journey is my home.
The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.
In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.
The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling of sound and meaning, as a curve of emotion (a form) plotted by certain crises of events or image or sound, or as a title which evokes a sense of inner relations; this is the first 'surfacing' of the poem. Then a period of stillness may follow.
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.
Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.
No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.
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