1. POETRY

2. INK RUNS FROM THE CORNERS OF MY MOUTH. THERE IS NO HAPPINESS LIKE MINE. I HAVE BEEN EATING POETRY.

3. “Poetry should please by fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reading of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.” John Keats

4. “The rhythmical creation of beauty.” Edgar Allan Poe

5. A reaching out toward expression, an effort to find fullfillment.” Robert Frost

6. ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.... Nikki Giovanni

7. “Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.” Ishmael Reed

8. “ A poet’s work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it going to sleep.” Salmon Rushdie

9. How does poetry make people feel ? “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me. I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it.” Emily Dickinson

10. “ I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.” Pablo Neruda

11. “ Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” Rita Dove ROBERT FROST

12. Plato thought of poets as dangerous people. In fact, he set out to ban poets and poetry from his ideal model of the state in book 10 of “The Republic”. He thought that poets, like politicians, know that the powerful utterance will find a way to engage our feelings, our hopes, and our anxieties; it will get under our skin.

13. “ A Poem is not a pop-tart !” Martin Espada