Caroline Starr Rose

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a pair of cupped hands

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Life often won’t freely give you moments of joy. Sometimes you have to wrench them away and cup them in your hands, to protect them from the wind and the rain. Art is a pair of cupped hands. Poetry is a pair of cupped hands.
— In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner

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Every Great Poem

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Every great poem fulfills a longing and puts life back together.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Poetry is…

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the human soul entire
squeezed like a lemon or a lime
drop by drop, into atomic words.
— Langston Hughes

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