„Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.“

— Audre Lorde

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„For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.“
— Audre Lorde
„We can train ourselves to respect our feelings, and to discipline (transpose) them into a language that matches those feelings so they can be shared. And where that language does not yet exist, it is our poetry which helps to fashion it. Poetry is not only dream or vision, it is the skeleton architecture of our lives.“
— Audre Lorde
„Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.“
— Brené Brown
„I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
„Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way… God can give us the perfect way.“
— Corrie ten Boom
„If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?“
— Emily Dickinson