10 Great Quotes Abouts Poets, Poetry, & Writing by Ann Darr

~ Paul Szlosek
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“The poems I write and read help me to handle the feelings that would otherwise shred me.”

‘Poetry may not have saved my life, but I can’t imagine a life without it.”

“If I don’t write every day, it’s as if my blood stagnates, scum collects on the pond of my mind.”

“I stumbled on Prufock at the age of nine, and the world opened for me.”

“Poetry is what I do, by necessity, by luck, by desire.”

“It [poetry] is a gift I could not have imagined, if I’d been in the creator’s seat, a gift most dreadful, most magnificent.” 

“If poems aren’t the most wonderful way to communicate, I don’t know what is…”

“[Poetry] helps us understand what happens in our lives.”

“There are those poems that one reads and you say “Oh, yes, that is the way it is” and you think too “I wish I said that. Well, it has been said for me.”

“The poet has to be aware, has to be looking all time, feeling all the time, and registering in some way that can be then translated into the language we all use because that is how we communicate with each other.”

—Ann Darr

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Paul Szlosek was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts, but currently resides in the nearby metropolis of Worcester. He was co-founder and host of the long-running Poet’s Parlor poetry reading in Southbridge and Sturbridge, as well as a past recipient of the Jacob Knight Award for Poetry. His poems have appeared in various local publications including the Worcester Review, Worcester Magazine, Sahara, Concrete Wolf, and Diner. He’s probably best known in the Worcester poetry community for his fanatical obsession with obscure poetry forms, and has invented his own including the ziggurat, the streetbeatina, and (most recently) the hodgenelle.

8 thoughts on “10 Great Quotes Abouts Poets, Poetry, & Writing by Ann Darr”

  3. Hello again, Paul,
    Thank you for taking a look at my latest blogpost after months of my inactivity on WP. I love Ann Darr’s words. Yes, poetry helps us understand our lives and it also brings human beings closer to each other. These lines are very powerful because they probably express what each poet feels:
    “If I don’t write every day, it’s as if my blood
    stagnates, scum collects on the pond of my mind.”

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