Edward Hirsch: “We’re involved in mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We’re always going to need it.”
Garrett Hongo: “I do want things to be better somehow, at least within myself, so that I might be more like the stillness that smooths the surface of a pond rather than the bullfrog that jumps into it.”
Jim Harrison: “I’m a poet and we tend to err on the side that life is more than it appears rather than less.”
Gary Snyder: “A life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking, brings us close to the actual existing world and its wholeness.”
Ellen Steinbaum: “I used to think that creativity and boredom were mutually exclusive. Now I wonder if they’re not inextricably intertwined.”
May Swenson: “Poetry is based in a craving to get through the curtains of things as they appear, to things as they are, and then into the larger, wilder space of things as they are becoming… Not to need illusion—to dare to see and say how things really are, is the emancipation I would like to attain.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
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