Ma Rib

“She knew exactly how she ought to feel, for she was well read in our greater and lesser English poets, but the unfortunate fact was that she did not really like being kissed at all.”
― Barbara Pym, Crampton Hodnet

“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on the top of St Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“There are anonymous poems and poets without poems.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.”
― Major Jackson