Poetry
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps
... See morefrom Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough.
from Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
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- “Poetry can break open locked chambers of possibility, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire,” Adrienne Rich
from The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece by Maria Popova
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