“My words will either attract a strong mind or offend a weak one.”
- Anne Sexton https://t.co/DOctwf3J7w
“My words will either attract a strong mind or offend a weak one.” - Anne Sexton https://t.co/DOctwf3J7w
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
“Poetry can break open locked chambers of possibility, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire,” Adrienne Rich
Maria Popova • The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece
“I don’t believe that the meek will inherit the earth: The meek get ignored and trampled. They decompose in the bloody soil of war, of business, of art, and they rot into the warm ground under the spring rains...”
—Sylvia Plath https://t.co/umIzS2y4rM