“Poetry is a bodily art––it uses our breath to find its form.”

––Daniela Naomi Molnar, Chorus, 2022.

“The process of revising a poem is no arbitrary tinkering, but a continued honing of the self at the deepest level”

––Jane Hirshfield

“I’m wary of using the verb think because I don’t think poetry is necessarily about thinking—but it gets hold of questions, and reveals them as questions, and then reveals what’s underneath them, and then what’s underneath that.”

––Alice Oswald

“All men owe honor to the poets – honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.” 

― Homer

Poets are the mirrors of the gigantic shadows–– Percy Bliss Shelley 1812

“This is why we have poetry and art–they attempt to evoke reality, but they don’t attempt to define it” –Rupert Spira

“We all have a filter [lens] that is primary for us– we will write like this. If we are genuine our world view (way of being) will come through. It’s your way of being [in the world] and you can’t help it, it comes out on the page” Danusha Laméris from her class The Nine Lenses of Poetry

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