Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
What's invisible sings, and we bear witness.
Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.
Here's a riddle for Our Age: when the sky's the limit, how can you tell you've gone too far?
If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.
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Published Sources for Quotations Above:
F:
In "The Quotable Quotations Book," by Alec Lewis, 1980.
R:
The Hill Has Something to Say," "Museum."
A:
O, " "The Yellow House on the Corner."
N:
In "The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya," by Terri L. Jewell, 1993.
