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