A quote from American Gods

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Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat. A true line acts like a lightning rod in a storm.

David Whyte • The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings in a language no one uses, because no one talks in verse.

Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the universe, which runs through himself and all things.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

David Whyte • The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)

Austin Kleon • 100 quotes that helped me write