04/30/11

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration. -Robert Burns

04/27/11

Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions. -Yahia Lababidi

04/25/11

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being. -Hafiz

04/22/11

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. -Jack Kerouac

04/21/11

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. -Carl Sandburg

04/20/11

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. -Jean Cocteau

04/19/11

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. -Samuel McChord Crothers

04/18/11

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. -John Keats

04/15/11

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. -Muriel Rukeyser

04/14/11

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. -W.S. Merwin

04/13/11

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. -James Branch Cabell

04/11/11

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. -Maxwell Bodenheim

04/08/11

The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together. -T.S. Eliot

04/07/11

In my view a good poem is one in which the form of the verse and the joining of its parts seems light as a shallow river flowing over its sandy bed. -Matsuo Basho

04/06/11

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose. -Charles Bukowski

04/05/11

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue. -Jimmy Santiago Baca

04/04/11

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. -Oscar Wilde

04/01/11

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. -Salman Rushdie