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“People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.”
― Li-Young Lee

“She shines and nobody knows what to do with her.”
― Linda Gregg

“This world is painted on a wild dark metal”
― Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country

“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath