Preoccupied Poet, Maude Phelps Hutchins

"You remember too much, my mother said to me recently.

Why hold onto all that?

And I said, Where can I put it down?"

The Glass Essay - Anne Carson

"A last request—grant it, please.

Never bury my bones apart from yours, Achilles,

Let them lie together . . .

Just as we grew up together in your house"

Patroclus to Achilles

The Iliad - Homer

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

“Distance doesn’t separate people. Silence does.”

— Jeff Hood

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

Virginia Woolf

I brew a coffee, I peel an orange, I play some music, I call a friend.

my favorite lines from this article about poetry from students grades 3-6

Transept of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire by Joseph Mallord William Turner