To all my faithful readers:
Well, the time has arrived. I leave in a few days, and the hustle and bustle of packing is on. I may not have time to post in between now and Monday when I leave, so this is good-bye.
I have thoroughly enjoyed our time together. The fact that you are reading my blog is yet another proof that the love of poetry has not entirely left this world. for that I am most thankful. Thank you for reading, and for sharing in one of my great loves.
In parting, here are a few quotes on poets and their children - poems.
"He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life."
George Sand
"The smell of ink is intoxicating to me - others may have wine, but I have poetry."
Terri Guillemets
"The poet doesn't invent. He listens."
Jean Cocteau
"To have great poets there must be great audiences too."
Walt Whitman
"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet, and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To a poet, poetry is paramount; it is to him nourishment, shelter and love: nourishment to his eternally hungering soul, shelter from the cruelties of mortality, and love when there is no other love to be found. To him poetry is life, and life is poetry."
David Jamison
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