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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve read it my whole life since discovering Sylvia Plath in high school. I have an MFA in creative writing, so I’m definitely obsessed with literature.[/quote] I also started with Sylvia Plath though I don't have an MFA. I find poems like beautiful word puzzles. The way you can take two distinct, unrelated words and form a whole new concept that leads to an emotion is amazing. I have been brought to tears through poetry. There are no boundaries except form, the metaphors make them limitless. For example, "you parted the shirt from my breastbone and plunged your tongue to my barestript heart" is a favorite line of mine from Walt Whitman. Of course you can't make love to someone by literally kissing their heart. But that's so beautiful and vulnerable and the meaning transcends words. [/quote]
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