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In Nicaragua, everybody talks poetry...We have two sports, two national sports. One is baseball, the other one is poetry.

— Daisy Zamora Interview with Bill Moyers (1995)

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Living body, one solid link to secure
the unending chain of bodies.

I shuddered
like the earth split open by lightning.

Poetry is essential in the human being, is part of the human essence we all share.

Interview (2023)

To be a woman is hard. In any, anywhere. And in all parts of the world, it’s hard.

Interview with Bill Moyers (1995)

poetry is about truth, about revealing something of our human nature and about the world.

Interview (2023)

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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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