There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry…

“She's an old soul with young eyes, a vintage heart, and a beautiful mind.”

— Nicole Lyons

“It's ironic, isn't it? How hope keeps us breathing just to kill us in the end.”

— Nicole Lyons

“She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet.”

— Nicole Lyons

“Sometimes love is nothing more than a sticky web; illusions spun from clever minds and bitter hearts.”

— Nicole Lyons

“I hold you in the safest place I keep. Somewhere between memories and scars.”

— Nicole Lyons

“Whatever it is that stirs your soul, listen to that. Everything else is just noise.”

— Nicole Lyons

“They say she is too much to handle, but when the moon pulls the tide and the wolves howl her name, blessed are the…

— Nicole Lyons

“And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life.”

— Nicole Lyons

“I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with soul, and I wonder if that…

— Nicole Lyons

“Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.”

— Nicole Lyons

“I kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame and stilled with filthy lies. Perhaps I should have dug deeper.”

— Nicole Lyons

“I have licked the fire and danced in the ashes of every bridge I ever burned. I fear no hell from you.”

— Nicole Lyons

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

— Cheryl Strayed

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way…

— Rita Dove

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

— Jane Hirshfield