What poetry does is put more oxygen into the atmosphere. Poetry makes it easier to breathe. - Kay Ryan

Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the pleasure of it... - William Carlos Williams

O Many Named Beloved / Listen to my praise - 'O Many Named Beloved', Samuel Menashe

...O, but Everyone/Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done. - 'Everyone Sang', Siegfried Sassoon

Young or old / What was I but the story told / By an unageing one? (Kathleen Raine, from 'Ah, many, many are the dead...')