Daily Quote: Poetry is an Echo

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” – Carl Sandburg

Daily Quote: The Precision of Poetry

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.” – Julian Barnes

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” ~ W.H. Auden

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” – Robert Frost

“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

“You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what’s in your heart.” — Carol Ann Duffy