“If you love someone, no part of them is revolting. Every bloody bit: beautiful.”— Megan Falley, amazon.com
“I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.”— Virginia Satir, en.wikiquote.org
“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”— Richard Siken, amazon.com
“It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound—that he will never get over it.”— Robert Frost, en.wikiquote.org
“A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”— Robert Frost, en.wikiquote.org
“But in my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.”— J.M. Coetzee, amazon.com