MUSINGS OF A POET
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." ~ Robert Frost
"Poetry is a soul inaugurating a form." ~ Edward Hirsch
"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, above all, to make you see." ~ Joseph Conrad
"Poetry is life distilled." ~ Gwendolyn Brooks