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I think what writers, storytellers, and poets have to say necessarily goes beyond such trivial boundaries as origin.

— Leslie Marmon Silko collected in Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko (1976)

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And in the belly of this story
the rituals and the ceremony
are still growing.

"Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words." (p222)

Storyteller (1981)

...as I tell the story
it will begin to happen...

Ceremony (1977)

This book is dedicated to the storytellers
as far back as memory goes and to the telling
which continues and through which they all live
and we with them.

Storyteller (1981)

It's generally double-edged. It seems with humor, there's always something beyond just the laughing that when you're laughing, you have to think beyond to greater considerations.

collected in Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko (1976)

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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