Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes distill language poetry
If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level. Rita Dove choicefullgenerous Change image and share on social
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on. Rita Dove crystallizedetailexplore Change image and share on social
I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels. Rita Dove accelerateaccomplishmentappear share on social
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. Antonin Artaud beggarchatterincomprehensible Change image and share on social
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel. Jenny Offill contrariancrossdistill share on social
The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. David Whyte defensegreatpoetry Change image and share on social
