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“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
Illegibility was a political act.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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
“WRITING POETRY IS an unnatural act,” Elizabeth Bishop once wrote. “It takes skill to make it seem natural.”
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
Poetry is language against which you have no defence