...how brief the time is on a summer afternoon when the sun is warm on your neck and the world might as well be a dog sleeping on a porch, or a child for whom an afternoon is endless, endless...

Time: thick honey, and no one saying goodbye.

- Robert Hass, The Apple Trees of Olema

Every new poem is like finding a new bride. Words are so erotic, they never tire of their coupling...

- Stanley Kunitz

Gypsy wedding song

Poetry is a zoo in which you keep demons and angels...

- Les Murray

Camille Saint Saens "Danse Macabre"

And the days are not full enough...And the nights are not full enough...And life slips by like a field mouse...Not shaking the grass...

- Ezra Pound

Poetry can tell us what human beings are. It can tell us why we stumble and fall and how, miraculously, we can stand up...

- Maya Angelou

I peel and portion a tangerine and spit the pips and feel the drunkenness of things being various...

- Louis Mac Niece

Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing...

- Lucille Clifton

They Thought I was Asleep, Paul Kelly