"I move in a mythical world all the time, but then myth and reality aren't separate things ~ it's a way of seeing for me. The mundane is magical, but so is the astronaut going to the moon."
~ Gwendolyn MacEwen, poet, quoted by Ken Adachi in The Toronto Star, 19 Nov. 1978.
"If I were named czar tomorrow, the first thing I'd do is fire all the English teachers. They do enormous damage. They take apart poems as if they were crosswords puzzles or riddles. They destroy people's innate love of poetry."
~ Greg Gatenby, poet, founder of the Harbourfront Reading Series, quoted by Rod Currie in The St. Catharines Standard, 11 Sept. 1993.
"I write poetry only to reveal my civilization, my sensitivities, my craftsmanship."
~ A.M. Klein, poet, offering his credo to A.J.M. Smith for The Book of Canadian Poetry (1943).
"For as long as man is still capable of emotion, be it love or hate or fear or great joy or sorrow, poems will cry out to be written, and somewhere and somehow poets will spring up to write the down."
~ Raymond Souster, poet, "Getting On with it," Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series (1991)
