4 Quotes by Jane Yolen about poetry
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In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional poetry but in other poetry as well, the poet is not writing characters so much as emotional truth wrapped in metaphor. Bam! Pow! A shot to the gut.
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If he failed, it was with honor.In his name we all dwellin CamelotLong after the towers fall,and merlins nestin the ruined stones.
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I tell the truth,' she said. 'But I tell it slant.
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Words shouldn’t be dirty or cleanBut definitely sweet,On the tongue, in the mind.
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