Michael Allyn Wells

"Metaphor sleeps around." ~ Alfred Corn 

"A door opens, a door shuts. In between you had a glimpse: a garden, a person, a rainstorm, a dragonfly, a heart, a city. I think of th...

"If good poetry is to be written, enormous amounts of bad poetry must be written too, if only because it is important for a serious po...

"A joke is like an explosion - there's just this little smoke and it's gone. A poem is like a much. much richer joke." Ad...

"Becoming a poet involves the end of a kind of innocence. It is about being critical, separate. Experience is no longer just experienc...

"A poem almost exists because of the pattern of space around it." ~ Fay Weldon, BBC January 2, 1992