Usually on Saturday I share a
“Saturday’s Poem." But today, as we start the trek toward summer’s end, I share, instead, a few
quotes from poets who were born in the month
of July. For enjoyable hours of reading, I highly recommend each of these great poets' writings.
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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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Here's hoping your summer days are
filled with poetic images that enhance your world.
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