Favorite Poem Project
"PROSE...words in their best order.
POETRY...the best words in the best order." --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth." --Samuel Johnson
"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well,
poetry is just the ash."--Leonard Cohen
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." --Robert Frost
"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of
it with you." --Joseph Joubert
"Poetry is a marriage of craft and imagination." --Christine E. Hemp
"It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by
creating silences around things." --Stephen Mallarme
"The only problem
with Haiku is that you just
get started and then"
--Roger McGough