The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. – Frederick William Robertson
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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
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. – Robert Morgan
The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponents playing ability is comparable, does the game develop. – Vladimir Kramnik
You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation. – Johnnetta Cole
Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you dont have to take it home with you at night. Its the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting. – Robert Carlyle
