Diane Ackerman Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memorable, Poetry, Language

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.129, Vintage

• poetry had everything to teach me about life.

  Diane Ackerman

  Poetry, Teach

• Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

  Diane Ackerman

  Past, Poetry, Telescopes

  Diane Ackerman (1999). “Deep Play”, Random House Incorporated

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