Therapy for the bold and faint of heart.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Leonard Cohen

One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre. Theodore Roethke

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom. Jacques Lacan

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either. Robert Graves

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. Allen Ginsberg