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

All books are merely delayed dust. - George Elliott Clarke

Bergin's perceptions are sharp, her senses of history, community, and relationships deep and acute, and her technical control over language and form is assured and graceful - Tower Poetry

Not every man has gentians in his house in Soft September, at slow, Sad Michaelmas. - D.H. Lawrence 'Bavarian Gentians'

And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love. - Walt Whitman 'Dirge For Two Veterans'

Poetry is the most elemental of the written arts.