"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. " - Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered "Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry." - W.B. Yeats "The distinction between historian and poet is not ...

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"When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay." - Octave Mirbeau "You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out." - Martha Graham "Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body." - Cicero ...

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"You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair." - Douglas MacArthur "In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities." - E.B. White "The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible." - Judith Regan ...

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