A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. – Mark Strand
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into ones soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. – John Keats
And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, its just been so worth the effort. Its like Im planting a garden in my head. – Jane Campion
Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. – Elbert Hubbard
I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and Im sure Id love it, because the sentences would be tuned up like music. – Karen Russell
