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AT NO COST AND POETRY IS LANGUAGE'S FIRST USE AND ITS LAST WHILE SO MANY LANGUAGES ARE DYING RIGHT

“Language is the ultimate human tool. Portable, invisible, and it zips around the world at no cost. And poetry is language’s first use and its last. While so many languages are dying right now, people continue chanting its poetry.”

Myles, Eileen. "Children's Poetry.” Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry (2013), co-publication of the Poetry Foundation and McSweeney's Publishing, edited by Dorothea Lasky, Dominic Luxford, and Jesse Nathan.

Poetry Foundation

INVISIBLE AND IT ZIPS AROUND THE WORLD AT NO COST AND POETRY IS LANGUAGE'S FIRST USE AND ITS LAST WHILE

“Language is the ultimate human tool. Portable, invisible, and it zips around the world at no cost. And poetry is language’s first use and its last. While so many languages are dying right now, people continue chanting its poetry.”

Myles, Eileen. "Children's Poetry.” Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry (2013), co-publication of the Poetry Foundation and McSweeney's Publishing, edited by Dorothea Lasky, Dominic Luxford, and Jesse Nathan.

Poetry Foundation

EVERYTHING'S FOG AND STEAM AND LUSTER NOW PEOPLE AND THINGS ARE NO LONGER CLEAR SEPARATE THE ENTIRE

“Everything’s fog and steam and luster now. People and things are no longer clear, separate; the entire world is the artist’s dream.”

Myles, Eileen. "Children's Poetry.” Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry (2013), co-publication of the Poetry Foundation and McSweeney's Publishing, edited by Dorothea Lasky, Dominic Luxford, and Jesse Nathan.

Poetry Foundation

RAISE OUR VOICES HAD BEEN HEARD ROUND THE WORLD AND WE'D CREATED A PRESENT BEYOND THE IMAGININGS


“Our generation did raise our voices, had been heard round the world; and we'd created a present beyond the imaginings of our parents, where, in fact, the necessity for screaming was rapidly becoming, or so it seemed, obsolete.”

Williams, Sherley Anne. "Returning to the Blues: Esther Phillips and Contemporary Blues Culture." Callaloo 14, no. 4 (1991): 816-28. Accessed July 27, 2021. doi:10.2307/2931192. p. 817.

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AGE EVEN NEW PARTNERS SHARE A WEALTH OF MOVES AND CAN FOLLOW EACH OTHER WITHOUT MISSING A LINGUISTIC

“When the rhythm and rules are acquired at an early age, even new partners share a wealth of moves and can follow each other without missing a linguistic step or dropping the conversational ball.”

Zentella A.C. (2003) “José, can you see?”. In: Sommer D. (eds) Bilingual Games. New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. p. 57. 

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Springer Link

SAWS SWIMMING INTO BOARDS BUCKETS TAKING DENTS AND THE HANDS ON THE CLOCK TURNING THEY AREN'T MELANCHOLY

“Flowers optimistically going to seed, fluttering candles lapping
the air, persevering saws swimming onto boards, buckets
taking dents, and the hands on the clock turning—they
aren’t melancholy”

Hejinian, Lyn. Happily. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 2000. p.3.

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Litmus Press

THE CLAYS WHICH HAD ACCUMULATED WERE NOW DRY AND WERE CUT AWAY AGAIN BY THESE FORCES THE PROCESS

“As the sea withdrew the destructive forces of weathering and the erosive forces of wind and running water became active. The clays which had accumulated were now dry and were cut away again by these forces. The process was not long continued and the plain was not completed, those clay areas which were capped by protecting sandstones remaining as monadnocks above the wide valley floor.”

Vaughan, Thomas Wayland. “The reef-coral fauna of Carrizo Creek, Imperial County, California and its significance.” Shorter Contributions to General Geology, 1916. Accessed May 26, 2021. p. 355.

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USGS Publications

OF WEATHERING AND THE EROSIVE FORCES OF WIND AND RUNNING WATER BECAME ACTIVE THE CLAYS ACCUMULATED

“As the sea withdrew the destructive forces of weathering and the erosive forces of wind and running water became active. The clays which had accumulated were now dry and were cut away again by these forces. The process was not long continued and the plain was not completed, those clay areas which were capped by protecting sandstones remaining as monadnocks above the wide valley floor.”

Vaughan, Thomas Wayland. “The reef-coral fauna of Carrizo Creek, Imperial County, California and its significance.” Shorter Contributions to General Geology, 1916. p. 355. Accessed May 26, 2021.

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USGS Publications