Seven Great Lines About Poetry

"I, too, dislike it."

            --Marianne Moore

"A poem should be more than what anyone can say about it."

          --Norman Dubie

"The poetry is in the living."

          --Rita Dove

"...out of the quarrel we make with ourselves we make poetry."

          --W.B. Yeats

"Poetry speaks and listens: it is real."

          --Octavio Paz

"Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum...."

          --Wislawa Szymborska

"Poetry the best words, the best order."

          --Samuel T. Coleridge