1.  Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

2.  Poetry is a journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly the air.

3.  Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

4.  Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

5.  Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

6.  Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

7.  Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

8.  Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

9.  Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

10. Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.