Marie Ponsot Quotes

• Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

  Marie Ponsot

  Feelings, Way, Priceless

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• Strike deep, divide us from cheap-got doubt,
  Leap, leap between us and the easy out;
  Teach us to seize, to use, to sleep well, to let go;
  Let our loves, freed in us, gaudy and graceful, grow.

  Marie Ponsot

  Letting Go, Sleep, Doubt

  Marie Ponsot (2013). “Springing: New and Selected Poems”, p.64, Knopf

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• I stand above the tree level I am a tree I catch wind storm breaths My branches claw I drink sky It stretches me I don't care I catch jokes and luck from tall thin blue air

  Marie Ponsot

  Wind, Sky, Air

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