Tagged for ten writing/poetry quotes:

Poetry is the deification of reality.
—Edith Sitwell

Isn't that what a poet is supposed to be, powerful and ghostly inside, raise the hair on your neck?
—Greg Bear


Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
—Marianne Moore


Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.
—Osbert Sitwell


Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
—Rita Dove


Barn burned down. Now I can see the moon.
—Basho


A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
—Oscar Wilde


...the art of saying everything and reducing it to nothing...
—Barbara Hyett


I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.
—Jorge Luis Borges


Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
—Hal Borland


Bonus:
The dictionary is a beautiful menu.
—Peter Bakowski

Tagging Kristy Bowen, Shanna Compton, Rob Mackenzie, Joel Toledo and Jean Vengua.

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