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