The Palestinian-American poet/novelist/essayist/anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye, who has done so much to broaden and diversify the world of America poetry, beautifully describes the power of poetry as follows (Thanks to The Writer's Almanac, 3/12/11, for this quotation):
"To me the world of poetry is a house with thousands of glittering windows. Our words and images, land to land, era to era, shed light on one another. Our words dissolve the shadows we imagine fall between."
Saturday, March 12, 2011
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