“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.”

“... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.”

“Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach.”

“How remarkable it was, she thought, that we managed to anchor ourselves at all in this world, and that we did so by giving ourselves names and linking those names with places and other people.”

“The piano is kind of like a dance floor for our thoughts you know? A very woody foundation so that we can really focus on the poetry.”

“We're all born nameless, aren't we? And the name we end up with has only peripherally to do with our family tree.”