When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.

For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond... a good feeling about his art.