on poetry

Imagination! who can sing thy force?

Or who describe the swiftness of thy course?

Phillis Wheatley
(May 8, 1753 – December 5, 1784)

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illustration by Scipio Moorhead
quote from “On Imagination”

on poetry

“The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.”
George Mackay Brown
(October 17, 1921 – April 13, 1996)

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image: Gunnie Moberg

on poetry

“If you’re going somewhere new and undiscovered you have to trust the imagination, you have to truly believe the poem knows better than you and thus follow where it leads.”
Philip Levine
(January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015)
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photo by Frances Levine

Happy 255th, Mr. Blake

“One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination, The Divine Vision.”
William Blake

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Portrait of Blake, engraved by Schiavonetti after Phillips, 1808.

Sinking*

2011 Walk Award
By Nina Djukic, 9th grade

*Copyright 2011 by Nina Djukic. Read the poem here: Sinking. Placard design by Egress Studio.