The Saturday Writing Quote

IMGP1940Poets are regular people who live down the block and do simple things like wash clothes and stir soup.
—Naomi Shihab Nye, American poet (b. 1952)

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read each other.
—Nikki Giovanni, American poet (b. 1943)

(Photo by Leslie: Echinacea, or cone flower)