Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same — Edward Hirsch
Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it. — Carl Sandburg
Charles Bernstein’s pairs of jingles of ‘public discourse’ are ‘simultaneous double narrative / — Leslie Scalapino
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, — Carl Sandburg
Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, — Carl Sandburg