"I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved her."
- Nicole Lyons
"a single poemthe thing that can keep melight on my feet,when my soul isheavy with sorrow."
- Sanober Khan
"A single poem, alonecan turn tidesscatter galaxiesand burst forth with riversfrom paradise."
"THE THINGS POETS & WRITERS DO THAT I LOVEListen to the AncestorsAcknowledge their influences Trust their gut-feelings and act on themMaintain openness. Play Dance with languagesBe bold Refuse servilit..."
- Billy Marshall Stoneking
"We, writers & poets, have a big problem. We swim too deep inside life, also in shallow waters, and then we end touching the sand!"
- Rossana Condoleo
"The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader."
- Jenim Dibie
"I write poems. I'm often laughed at for doing so. My friends and foes, who were born in 1980's or even later aren't savvy with this concept of the reading and writing poems. They're probably not at fa..."
- Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
"The obscure, unexplainable aspect of the writing process is about how some rhymes appear in your head. It often feels more like tuning in to some kind of channel than composing words in your mind."
- Sahara Sanders
"Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know."
- Adrienne Rich