Compression of poetry is so great I often explode. Out of the house to walk off a poem. – William Corbett, “On Reading: Notes & a Poem,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. – Edmond de Goncourt

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. – Edgar Allan Poe