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)
Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking… a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys… every line has its own meaning. – Sarah, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. – Karl Marx