“It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.”

“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

“Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day- like writing a poem or saying a prayer.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea

“Reciting a poem aloud, you are not like an actor, rather you come to understand, then to be, the voice of the poem itself.”

John Hollander (1929–2013) American poet

“Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.”

Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books

“Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, — but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

“A living poem can energise another poem at five hundred years distance, or across the other side of the world.”

Michael Schmidt (poet) (1947) American poet

“Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.”

Lorrie Moore Birds of America