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" How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see? "

Maria Montessori

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" When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. "

" We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading. "

Maria Montessori

" The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos. "

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" I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. "

" When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. "

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" The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections. "

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" Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. "

" If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. "

" Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul. "

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" I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet. "

" It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny. "

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" Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath. "

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" I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. "

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" The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. "

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" Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. "

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