I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.
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Margaret Atwood
I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry. I cried because you wouldn't let me speak. I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine. I shone because I thought you loved me...
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Emilie Autumn
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.
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Roy T. Bennett
Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.
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Toba Beta
Speak out off turn and you will surely be put back in line.
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Anthony T.Hincks
More Quotes By Natasha Trethewey
I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing-- I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.
ArtifactAs long as I can remember you kept the rifle--your grandfather's an antique you called it-in your study, propped against the tall shelvesthat held your many books. Upright, beside those hard-worn spins, it was anotherbackbone of your pas, a remnant I studiedas if it might...
The wages of empire is myopia
Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
