"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."
-Muriel Rukeyser
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"If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger."
-Muriel Rukeyser
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"Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry."
-Muriel Rukeyser
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
-George Sand
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"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."
-John Donne
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"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
-Leonard Cohen
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"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
-Robert Frost
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"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
-John Keats
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"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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