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- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw
- There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. — A. R. Ammons
- If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included. — A. R. Ammons
- If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster. — A. R. Ammons