Lee Potts @leepotts@writing.exchange

"I have long felt that in the silences between words and the pauses between lines in a lyric poem, one can hear the faintly whispered refrain 'we are mortal.'"

-- Gregory Orr, “Order and Disorder in Lyric Poetry

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"The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you."

-- Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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Finding the title for a poem is almost never a problem for me but I'm really stuck coming up with one for he piece I'm working on now. I'm pretty sure that's all I still need to finish it.

What do you do when the right title just isn't making itself known to you?

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"A poem can sometimes feel like something hidden behind a door: the door opens and you are invited into something strange—maybe something confounding, disturbing—in some way that is felt, beyond intellect."

-- Dana Levin

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"I don’t know why a poem begins in one place and ends up in another."

-- Henri Cole

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"A poem, is a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the—not always greatly hopeful—belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps."

-- Paul Celan

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"#Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious, because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted."

-- Louise Glück

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"I still feel that poetry is not medicine - it’s an X-ray. It helps you see the wound and understand it."

-- Dunya Mikhail

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Most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That’s what it means.

-- June Jordan

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One of my poems which appeared earlier this year in Interstellar Literary Review (https://www.interstellarlit.com/) ...

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