A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.