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Poetry isnt a profession, its a way of life. Its an empty basket y

Poetry isnt a profession, its a way of life. Its an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that. – Mary Oliver

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When its over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. – Mary Oliver

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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? – Mary Oliver

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I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. – Howard Nemerov

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Mathematics and Poetry are… the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart. – Thomas Hill

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I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. – Rick Springfield

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. – James Joyce

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