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Quote by Terri Guillemets
Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, a

Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, aromatic with bittersweet memories, pungent adversities, and the honey-musk of desire — the vapors hover over our inkpots, and if we pick up the feather it becomes our poetry. – Terri Guillemets

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What do I want to be when I grow up? Happy. I want to be happy. And useful, loved, loving, healthy, wise, free, strong. – Terri Guillemets

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If purring could be encapsulated, it would be the most powerful anti-depressant on the market. – Terri Guillemets

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Children can write poetry and then, unless theyre poets, they stop when reach puberty. – Dennis Potter

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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. – James Broughton

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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. – Eugenio Montale

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