Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
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Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. -
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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. -
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. -
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
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