Kurokami no
Shira kami made to
Musubiteshi
Kokoro hitotsu wo
Ima takame ya mo

[http://www.humanistictexts.org/al_ma'arri.htm Al-Maʿarri's poems (in English)]

There is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love.

It is our dreams that point the way to freedom. Those dreams are made realizable through our poems that give us the strength and courage to see, to feel, to speak, and to dare.

The fact that Saigyō composed the poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master. He also wrote:
In the mountain village
who are you calling, yobuko-bird?
I thought you lived alone.

[http://www.redpoppy.net/pablo_neruda.php Red Poppy] a non-profit dedicated to furthering Neruda's commitment to humanitarianism and spreading his poetry around the world. Home of the critically acclaimed, bestselling "The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems" and the documentary "Pablo Neruda: The Poet's Calling

[http://www.poesia-inter.net/indexpn.htm Original poems] - It includes some translations and audio files. All poems are sourced

[http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/li_ching_chao/poems Li Ching Chao Poems and Poetry] at Famous Poets and Poems

[https://www.poemhunter.com/kakinomoto-no-asomi-hitomaro/ Kakinomoto no Asomi Hitomaro Poems] at Poem Hunter

His poems generally known as the Luzumiyat arrest attention by their boldness and originality as well as by the sombre and earnest tone which pervades them.

[https://www.aldiwan.net/poem101679.html]

What is a homeland? It is a place that enables people to blossom, and not a place in which people serve the flag. In my poem, Cease-fire with the Mongolians, I say that I am going to make socks out of the flag. My life's work is not on behalf of a flag.

Li Yi-an was the greatest poetess of China. Once her husband asked one of his friends to pick out the best lines that he liked from a number of his poems, having, however, concealed in them some pieces by his wife. The friend picked out, to his dismay, only lines from her pen.

I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin's prose. It liberated me as a writer. These poems overwhelm without competing with his prose, and I am grateful to have this collection.