- Basho: “The one who writes three to five haiku…”
- Charles Williams on how poems mean
- Mary Oliver: “To pay attention…”
- Mary Oliver: “What wretchedness…”
- Mary Oliver: from her poem “Praying”.
- Owen Barfield on the language of poetry
- Pasternak (Doctor Zhivago) on art
- Paul Valery on writing
- Thomas Merton: “…They never succeed in being themselves.”
