Jo Halstead

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
― Voltaire

“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

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus