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"A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk."

Lisa Bonet on Poetry

More quotes about Poetry

• "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."

  Oscar Wilde on Poetry

• "A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

  Oscar Wilde on Poetry

• "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."

  T. S. Eliot on Poetry

• "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

  Robert Frost on Poetry

• "A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

  Robert Frost on Poetry

More quotes by Lisa Bonet

• "What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money."

• "I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career."

• "My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family."

• "What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money."

• "I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up."