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Poetry therapy and bibliotherapy are terms used synonymously
to describe the intentional use of poetry and other forms of literature for
healing and personal growth.
Poetry is the response of our innermost being to the ecstasy, the agony and the
all-embracing mystery of life. It is a song, or a sigh, or a cry, often all of
them together.
--Charles Angoff (Lerner, 1994)
Poetry humanizes because it links the individual by its distilled
experience, its rhythms, its words to another in a way which no other form of
communication can. Poetry also helps to ease the aloneness which we all share in
common.
--Myra Cohn Livingston (Lerner, 1994)
I believe that a poem is an emotional-intellectual-physical construct
that is meant to touch the heart of the reader, that it is meant to be re
reexperienced by the reader. I believe that a poem is a window that hangs
between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms. I also
believe that a poem is a noise and that noise is shaped.
--Stephen Dobyns
(Dobyns, 1997)
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