National Poetry Day at Aotea 2015

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

~Marianne Moore

A poem is a Tardis: so much bigger on the inside than it seems on the outside.

~Carol Ann Duffy

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

~Plutarch

Poetry brings light to our empty world.

~Kirill

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

~Marcus Tullius Cicero

The pen is mightier than the sword

~Shakespeare

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

~Sylvia Plath

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

~Carl Sandburg

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

~David Carradine