"So what if a piece of wood discovers it’s a violin..." - Arthur Rimbaud

“Olds writes “poetry more faithful to the felt truth of reality than any prose could be.” – Richard Wakefield.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

To see the Summer Sky / Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie? / True Poems flee?

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost

Poetry's about what can't be said. WS Merwin

Linda Gregg brings us back to poetry...She is original and mysterious, one of the best poets in America. Gerald Stern

The poem might be our only evidence that an event has occurred: it exists for us as the sole trace of an occurrence. - Carolyn Forche