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“Poetry is a way of returning to the silence of the soul, but also a way of resisting oblivion.”

— Kristian Sendon Cordero

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“The poet is both pilgrim and witness, carrying fragments of the sacred and the profane.”

“Translation is not betrayal; it is a bridge that allows us to inhabit another’s world while keeping our own.”

“To write in Bikol is to insist that our language, our memory, and our identity matter.”

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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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