“If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be? is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is.” IfsPoetPaperCloudsOnenessSheetsFloatingInterbeing Author:Nhat Hanh
“A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.” ShouldKindChildrenDoeIdeasDifferentLiteratureRichPoetPaperAcquireDedicatedDifferent KindsMarvelousLunaticMarvellousChildren's Literature Author:Joan Aiken
“A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the words or make certain sounds rhyme or just imitate the other poets they've read. But this boy, he's the real poet, because when he tries to put on paper what he's seen with his heart, he will believe deep down that there are no good words for it, no words can do it, and at that moment he will have begun to write poetry.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingBelieveHeartRealMomentsCertainSoundCan DoLinesBoysFiguresPoetPaperThat MomentRhymeDeep DownGood Words Author:Cynthia Rylant
“The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.” MenDoePoetPaperBrushes Author:Yang Wanli
“Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With the eloquence of a poet, he holds up a sheet of paper and teaches us that the rain cloud and the tree and the logger who cut the tree down are all there in the paper. He's been one of the most significant carriers of the lamp of the dharma to the West that we have had.” AbilityTeachCuttingHeardTreeTeachingPoetPaperRainProfoundWestCloudsSignificantEmptinessSheetsLampsDharmaEloquenceInterdependenceCarrierThich Nhat HanhRain Clouds Author:Jack Kornfield
“I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper.” BelieveI BelievePoetReturnPaperLosingFleshCeaseSovietCitizenship Author:Joseph Brodsky