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U Writing C in nglish -VolumeE - XV/2016 U Writing C English -Volume XV/2016~ Preface to the Poetry Section “We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write This collection contains part of the fruits of our learning. Here you will poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human find the languages of simplicity and relative sophistication; throbbing race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, tales of love, loss, joy, rage, remorse, and so on; most importantly, you these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, will hear the rhythms of thirty beating hearts. However different they beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.” sound, they are the same in the sense that they hope those outpourings —John Keating, ‘Dead Poets Society’ of the soul might, at certain points, perhaps help prove how poetry keeps us alive. Similarly, we appreciate and attempt to write poetry not only for aesthetic pleasure or intellectual fireworks; we love poetry because it Thank you. shows us the breadth and depth of humanity. Poetry awakens the most innate human qualities in us, distils our human essence, and shows us Carren Wong, Gabrielle Tsui, Liz Wan what it truly means to be human. Editors Of course, being merely students, we are far from being able to demonstrate the divine qualities of poetry; rather, through learning to write poems, we have gained insight into the beauty and magic of acclaimed poetry, and by engaging with those masterpieces, we have found more and better ways to express ourselves.
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