Quote by Judy Collins
I dont think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself an

I dont think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs dont come from the surface they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. – Judy Collins

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For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into societys method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries. – Judy Collins

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Society
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My book Trust Your Heart, which is the story of my life, will be followed by Singing Lessons, a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy. – Judy Collins

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Death
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I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way. – Judy Collins

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I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. – Keith Haring

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Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry. – Michael Tippett

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Ive often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what its been doing to my poetry when Im not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me. – George Murray

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American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. – Diane Wakoski

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