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National Poetry Month: My Favorite Quotes on Poetry

In honor of National Poetry Month, I created this collection of some of my favorite quotes on the power and art of poetry, by great women poets. I hope it inspires you to write or read more poetry!

“Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.” –Ellen Bass
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” –Rita Dove
“We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared. And where that language does not yet exist, it is our poetry which helps to fashion it.” –Audre Lorde
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