Quotes for All
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous passions of adults, into her own honey-dusk ‘voodun’: protective, purified to gold. Poetry is always a time machine: here we are invisible travelers to a bewitched past, … Read more
Poetry can save the world. I’m a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it … Poetry is probably as close as I would get to religious feeling. I think poetry makes the world stand still. Carol Muske-Dukes
Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a man asked my profession, I told him that I was a writer. He sipped his drink. Half-hour or hour? he inquired. There was a long silence. Lifelong, I replied. Carol Muske-Dukes