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“The poet is often not as smart as the poem.”

~ Michael Mark

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“Trust the reader.”

~ Ron Salisbury

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“Don’t get caught up in form. Let the poem live.”

~ Ron Salisbury

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“I know in my own modest experience, and I think many writers have this experience, that sometimes there are aspects of a poem that despite our best efforts, we simply miss. We don’t necessarily as the first reader of the poem get every possible resonance.”

~ Paul Muldoon

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“Now, now, now, now, now.”

~ Alison Luterman

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“She didn't live to finish her work--who does?--but she did engage with it deeply…”

~ Alison Luterman

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“Make sure you read a lot of poems.”

~ Ron Salisbury

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“The field of play on which the audience and poet are engaged is time itself.”

~ Ron Salisbury

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“We never truly live in the present.”

~ Ron Salisbury

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“Tenderness is a sanitized memory.”

~ Ron Salisbury

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“No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”

~ Robert Frost

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“When the last person dies who has a memory of you, that’s when you’ll truly be dead.”

~ Viola Davis

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“There’s no small poem that can’t be made smaller.”

~ Ron Salisbury

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“The length of a phrase is measured by the length of a breath.”

~ Ron Salisbury

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“There’s something about poetry and language and the essential nature of a poem and the essential nature of a short play that is exciting in its economy.”

~ Neil Pepe, director of “A Play Is a Poem”

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“Poetry is language against which you have no defenses.”

~ David Whyte

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“You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.”

~ Richard Hugo