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“Don't scorn your life just because it's not dramatic, or it's impoverished, or it looks dull, or it's workaday. Don't scorn it. It is where poetry is taking place if you've got the sensitivity to see it, if your eyes are open." --Philip Levine, describing what he learned from William Carlos Williams, via NPR”
― Philip Levine

tags: levine, philip-levine, poetry, william-carlos-williams

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“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

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“Which of the horses
we passed yesterday whinnied
all night in my dreams?
I want that one.”
― William Stafford, TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK.

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“Understand I will quietly slip away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming over the oaks.

I'll pursue the solitary pathways of the twilight meadows with only this one dream. You come too.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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“She had to find a way to lift them together. The only thing she had was a moan. And she moaned. That moan would become a Spiritual; that Spiritual would become Jazz; which would become Blues then Rhythm and Blues then Rap. That moan would define not only a people but the nation to which they were sailing. That moan would make those people decide that they should, that they could, live.”
― Margaret Walker, Jubilee

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