1. DEFINITIONS Presented by Diana Flemer

2. KAHLIL GIBRAN (interview on BBC-TV, based on a very similar statement he overheard around 1955) Picture from Google Images Quote from: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/rober t_graves.html http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/rober t_graves.html “Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.” I will use this quote in my book because Gibran uses all components that are part of the process when I try to model my assignments. There is joy when I have a good idea, pain when I don’t, and wonder when I feel successful; and always the presence of the dictionary for ideas are grounded in the meanings of the words that I use.

3. ROBERT GRAVES (interview on BBC-TV, based on a very similar statement he overheard around 1955) Picture from Google Images Quote from: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/rober t_graves.html http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/rober t_graves.html “There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.”

4. ROBERT FROST (interview on BBC-TV, based on a very similar statement he overheard around 1955) Picture from Google Images Quote from: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/rober t_graves.html http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/rober t_graves.html “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”

5. MARIANNE MOORE ( her definition of poetry, "Poetry," Collected Poems, 1951) Picture from Google Images “Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.”

6. ELI KHAMAROV (from The Shadow Zone ) Picture from Google Images “Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.”

7. CARL SANDBURG “Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.” Picture from: Google Images (in Poetry Considered)

8. PERCY SHELLEY ( in A Defence of Poetry, 1821) Picture from Google Images “Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”

9. PLATO (from Ion ) Picture from Google Images “Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”

10. W.B. YEATS (from The Shadow Zone ) Picture from Google Images “Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. ”

11. DIANA FLEMER “A poet sits high in an ancient tree to hear its heartbeat or lies down on a primordial rock to feel the earth move.” Taken by G. Peters Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington 2008 Written in June 2010