Poets' Messages

Everyone ... wants to say in their own terms what it means to be alive. Poetry is the most common way, because the material of poetry is the stream of language that is constantly going on in our heads. It’s very low tech. Anyone can do it. ~Robert Hass*

Take the time to write. You can do your life’s work in half an hour a day. ~Ibid.*

I think that all poets are sending religious messages, because poetry is, in such great part, the comparison of one thing to another ... and to insist, as all poets do, that all things are related to each other, comparable to each other, is to go toward making an assertion of the unity of all things. ~Richard Wilbur*

Poets all, Namaste.

*from "The Writer’s Almanac," March 1, 2006 (via Diann McCabe) http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org