Usually on Saturday I have a
“Saturday’s Poem” to share. But today,
as we end July and start the trek toward summer’s end, I thought just a few
quotes about poetry would be in order – all by poets who were born in the month
of July. Poetry enriches and enhances all of our lives,
and for writers it is a terrific way to both express yourself and to capture
the essence of a subject, or the world around you. Enjoy!
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“I like poems you can tack all over
with a hammer and there are no hollow places.” – John Ashbery
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“The poetry of a people comes from
the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of
our ancestral memories.” – Margaret
Walker
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“Nobody, I think, ought to read
poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in
them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is
suggestiveness.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Poetry is above all a concentration
of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to
everything in the universe.” – Adrienne
Rich
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May your remaining summer days be
filled with poetic images that will enhance your writing world and lead to
countless “writer’s moments.”
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