Ma Rib

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

“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

“A versifier passes through the sound; sounds go through a poet.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work and it's money and I've written more lists than songs lately. I stay up all night to do all these things I need to do, be all these things I want to be, playing with shadows in the darkness that shouldn't be able to exist. Empty bottles and cigarettes while watching the sunrise, why do I complain? I have it all, everything I ever asked for.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps