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  It overcomes me
  swells and surges -
  comes in a wave of brine,
  breaks
  and sucks back with such an undertow.
  Puts a hard knot in my throat
  and comes out illegibly,
  with such fervor.

  On the crawl up the mountain
  heading nearer the crest of climax -
  ratcheting to the peak
  of the highest of rollercoasters
  Attaining the pure perfect word
  my tongue could never find.

  I swallow with much effort,
  my pen rounds the crest,
  the dénouement flowing
  to the last line,
  that which sets me free.

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• Sylvia Plath

  
• “Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over-dramatize it or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.” - Sylvia Plath

• Sandra Cisneros

  
• I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog. - Sandra Cisneros

• Rita Dove

  
• Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. - Rita Dove

• Charles Bukowski

  
• An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski