(Greek) "I Create"

“...infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.”

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know ..."

"...when an emotion finds its thought and the thought has found words."

"...the Rythmical Creation of Beauty"

"...language at its most distilled and most powerful"

"...an escape from personality and emotion"

"...the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"

"Every poem is its own sole freshly created universe"

"...the deification of reality"

"...how to live?"

"...an empty basket; you put your life into it"

"...what makes your toenails twinkle"

"...when we realize that we possess nothing"

"...a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary"

"...the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads"

"...a holy thing"

"...a plank laid over the lion's den."

"Poetry is...

...an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of

...a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights

...an echo asking a shadow dancer to be a

...the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to

...a sky dark with a wild-duck

...a sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a

...the opening and closing of a

...a fresh morning spiderweb telling a story of moonlit hours

...a packsack of invisible

...a phantom of script telling how rainbows are made and why

...the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate

"Out of used furniture she made a tree"