"The sense of self becomes a home rather than a prison. You can come and go freely."

~ Shinzen Young

"I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything." 

~ Steven Wright

"If you write a poem about love...
the love is a bird,

the poem is an origami bird.
If you write a poem about death...

the death is a terrible fire,
the poem is an offering of paper cutout flames

you feed to the fire.
We can see, in these, the space between

our gestures and the power they address
—an insufficiency. And yet a kind of beauty,

a distinctly human beauty."

~  Albert Goldbarth

Stay, I said
to the cut flowers.
They bowed
their heads lower.

~ Jane Hirshfield