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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, whic

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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The mothers battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. – Adrienne Rich

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I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale. – Robert Morgan

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The crown of literature is poetry. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Id always loved poetry and Id always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadnt thought of putting the two together until around that time. – Bruce Cockburn

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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. РAlfred de Musset, Le Po̬te d̩chu, 1839

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