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These quotes offer important insights into the value and power of writing and literature, as well as into the nature of the writing process--enjoy.

 

Poems tell stories; poems recount ideas; but poems
embody feeling. Because emotion is illogical-- in logic opposites cannot both be true. in the life of feeling we love and hate together-- the poem exists to say the unsayable...the unsayable said.
                                           
-Donald Hall

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
                                            -Paul Valery (1871-1945)

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes  a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
                                            -Henry Miller (1891-1980)

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.
                                            -Paul Klee

What is art, but a way of seeing?
                                            -Thomas Berger (1924 - 

What we call the beginning is often an end, and to make an end is to make a beginning.  The end is where we start from.

                                            -T. S. Eliot The Four Quartets

 

 
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