right to ask

Every poem has the right to ask for a new poetics.

—Anna Swir, Talking to My Body (Copper Canyon Press, 1996), translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan

lowly potato

If you can get to its essence, even a lowly potato would be poetic.

—Jayanta Mahapatra, “Of the Lowly Potato: Indian English Poetry Today” (2001)