Terri Guillemets's Quote - Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, a

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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A wolf howls his soul into the misty night. The moon answers with glowing silence. – Terri Guillemets

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Age is easiest to see in Winter, between the bare branches of the trees. – Terri Guillemets

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Skipping exercises your happiness muscles. – Terri Guillemets

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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. – Denis Diderot

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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of ones geographic landscape, sometimes out of ones cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. – Diane Wakoski

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If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. – Simon Armitage

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Guests bring good luck with them. – Turkish Proverb

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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. – Max Lerner

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Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. – Tadao Ando

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