Deborrah Cornago

“The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.”
― Harold Bloom, The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost

“I don't feel strong anymore
I feel like falling to my knees.
Things aren't the way they were before,
They're not the way they're supposed to be.”
― Atarah L. Poling, Hidden Light

“It's very difficult to look at the World
and into your heart at the same time.
In between, a life has passed.”
― Jim Harrison, After Ikkyu & Other Poems

“I was born with my eyes turned inward.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems