“Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.”– Jorge Luis Borges Related Quotes “Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”– Don Marquis “You don’t go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.”– Phyllis Gotlieb “Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.”– Eli Khamarov