04/14/09

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. -Robert Hass

04/13/09

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try. -Nikki Giovanni

04/10/09

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences. -Paul Valery

04/09/09

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else. -Billy Collins

04/08/09

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. -Robert Frost

04/07/09

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? -Jalaluddin Rumi

04/06/09

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. -Allen Ginsberg

04/03/09

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. -Joseph Joubert

04/02/09

I'm not interested in poetry that keeps people out; I'm interested in poetry that invites people in. -Naomi Shihab Nye

04/01/09

Many people like to think that they'll find balance AFTER they find success. But in reality, achieving balance IS success. -Brian Koslow