Glyn Maxwell covers a greater distance in a single line than most people do in a poem. Joseph Brodsky

I don't want to be one of those ivory tower writers; I want to affect people's lives.

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

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin. Stanley Kunitz.

We've all led raucous lives,/ some of them inside, some of them out./ But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Charles Wright (from 'Littlefoot')

...You no longer /Want to seem what you are, but something /Harmless and familiar: in a landscape/Given to greenness and the cold pastels /Of stubble and field stone... David Wagoner from 'The Principles of Concealment.'

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

Language is remarkable in that, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about. Howard Nemerov

Man, you call yourself a poet and you don't know chickadees? Amy Clampitt

Always use a well sharpened pencil / followed by a good eraser. / Watch the white emerge. - Caroline Caddy, 'Editing the Moon'