"The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming."

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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Poetry, Beauty, Inspirational, Truth, Happiness

"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Poetry, Imagination, Words, Emotion

"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Poetry, Beauty, Peace, Happiness, Love

"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Poetry, Love, Inspirational, Happiness, Truth

"The lamp hummed:'Regard the moon,La lune ne garde aucune rancune,She winks a feeble eye,She smiles into corners.She smoothes the hair of the grass.The moon has lost her memory.A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,Her hand twists a paper rose,That smells of dust and old Cologne,She is aloneWith all the old nocturnal smellsThat cross and cross across her brain."The reminiscence comesOf sunless dry geraniumsAnd dust in crevices,Smells of chestnuts in the streets,And female smells in shuttered rooms,And cigarettes in corridorsAnd cocktail smells in bars."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Poetry, Moon, Memory, Night, Nostalgia

"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Poetry, Experience, Truth, Emotion

"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Poetry, Time, Feelings, Being

"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Poetry, Movement, Memory, Time

"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

Poetry, Sound, Art, Expression, Creativity

"Poetry is a mug's game."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Poetry, Art, Expression, Difficulty

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"I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do."

Want

"Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction."

Poetry

"The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming."

Poetry

"The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started."

Competition

"It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway."

Now

"I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling."

Writing

"I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly."

Needs

"I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last."

Change

"I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate."

Now

"I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book."

Wrong