A poem is done when it stops bothering me. That is my definition of doneness.
--Mary Ruefle
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A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.
-Allen Ginsberg
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To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
-Jeanette Winterson
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What most violently revolts us is within us.
-Georges Bataille
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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light;
-Milton, Paradise Lost, book 2
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Yes, my strength is in solitude. I'm not afraid of pouring rains or great gusts of wind, for I too am the darkness of the night.
-Lispector
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