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The fear of poetry is the fear.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.

Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.

The journey is my home.

When I am dead, even then,
I will still love you, I will wait in these poems,
When I am dead, even then
I am still listening to you.

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

In all the cities of this year
I have longed for the other city.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.

I learned that I had been brought up as a protected, blindfolded daughter.

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.

Exchange is creation.

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

breathe in experience breathe out poetry

The truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Reality is the completion of experience ...

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

We hear the saints saying: Our brother the world. We hear the revolutionaries: Dare we win?

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.

Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ...

The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

The universe is not made of atoms; it's made of stories.

Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document.

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

We are against war and the sources of war.
We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.

One writes in order to feel ...

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge ...

Only one man lived who could understand Gibbs's papers. That was Maxwell, and now he is dead.

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.

Their faces said : This is your home; and I .
I never come home, I never go away.
And they all answered : Stay.

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

All the poems of our lives are not yet made.

My lifetime listens to yours.

Dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?

Try to live as if there were a God

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

I will try to be non-violent
one more day
this morning, waking the world away
in the violent day.

Women in drudgery knew
They must be one of four:
Whores, artists, saints, and wives.
There are composite lives
that women always live

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.