On Poetry Quotes

“In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.”
― R.M. Engelhardt

“Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.”
― Gloria Ng

“We cannot look at the past or the future except by means of the imagination but again the imagination of backward glances is one thing and the imagination of looks ahead something else. Even the psychologists concede this present particular, for, with them, memory involves a reproductive power, and looks ahead involve a creative power: the power of our expectations.”
― Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination