"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar." -Percy Bysshe Shelley "Poetry is a speaking picture..." -Sir Philip Sidney"Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe...." -Adrienne Rich "Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for." - Jean Cocteau
