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Lucille Clifton on Poetry

1936–2010 United States

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One thing poetry teaches us, if anything, is that everything is connected…There is so much history that we have not validated.

I think that we're beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lucille Clifton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.