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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. – Walter Mosley

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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. – Walter Mosley

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I think that people dont know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, I know how to hire someone. – Walter Mosley

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car
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When you deal with a person whos experiencing dementia, you can see where theyre struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how theyre trying to remember. – Walter Mosley

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The completely solitary self: thats where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, “Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.” – Robert Penn Warren, “The Themes of Robert Frost,” Hopwood Lecture, 1947

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Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. – Eli Khamarov, The Shadow Zone

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I used to joke that if acting didnt work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. – Merritt Wever

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