Quote by Edward Abbey
I dont see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick,

I dont see how poetry can ever be easy… Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it. – Edward Abbey

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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air. – Edward Abbey

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The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key. – Edward Abbey

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[P]oetry… folds its wings at the rough contact of reality… it feels in one sense much more, and in another much less, than the soul engaged with reality… – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. He requires whatever it needs to be completely his own master. – Robert Graves, Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, 1946

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The desert attracts the nomad, the ocean the sailor, the infinite the poet. – Author Unknown

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A lot of people think, Ill give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesnt work out Ill go get a law degree, do something else thats more practical. For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. – Brit Marling

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