Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the...
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the...
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the...
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the...
About This Quote

Sometimes you need to be naked in order to see things that are otherwise hidden. When you’re naked, you’re not hiding anything. You’re not trying to be careful or careful about what you say, because you’re not worried about looking good. You only care about the message you’re trying to get across.

You’d rather not worry about how it will look to people when you say it, because there is no audience. There is no one else who can judge you. And if someone doesn’t like what you said, they don’t like what they saw.

Poetry is a naked man and a naked woman and the distance between those two seems to be the entire world.

Source: Poetry As Insurgent Art

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