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"'Don't wait for it,' I said. 'Create a world, your world.  Alone.  Stand alone.  Create.  And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you.  It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened up to me."
--Anaïs Nin, 1933

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"The ‘unsayable’ thing at the center of the poem becomes visible to the poet and reader in the same way that dark matter becomes visible to the astrophysicist. You can’t see it, but by measure of its effect on the visible, it can become so precise a silhouette you can almost know it."

--Rebecca Lindenberg, interview for McSweeney's Books

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"A poem needs understanding through the senses.  The point of diving into a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore but to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water.  You do not work the lake out, it is an experience beyond thought.  

Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept the mystery."

via filmsets

 
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