In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry ~ Basho
I followed the words into a figurative space, where they invited me to get lost. I’m never able to get quite as lost as I want to, but with each poem I get a little closer ~ Heather Christle
any idea, charged with emotion or imagination, can be put into plain language; but it lives longer, travels farther, changes more lives as poetry © John Looker 2009
Poetry is …a way to listen to the distinction between the faint patter of rain on a summer’s night and tears one cries in dreams. © Brendan ~ Oran’s Well
Words seek music,
Words seek sound,
to wrap their own sound around.
When words are sung,
Their stories breathe,
and pass through time, eternally. © Catherine Jayne~
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. ~ Octavia Paz
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.~ Maxwell Bodenheim
“The relationship between poetry and photography, at its deepest and most engaging, is serendipitous and requires the reader/viewer to reach, work, and imagine in order to make productive connections between text and image,”~Michael Nott ~ Photopoetry 184
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence ~ Ansel Adams
Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks ~ Plutarch
I believe that every line in every poem is the orphaned caption of a lost photograph – “Teju Cole ~ Blind Spot
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language ~ W. H. Auden
“When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.” ~ Bashō
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