iJunoon Archives |2010 | November

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
Richard Rosen

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
Robert Penn Warren

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
Eli Khamarov

Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost