"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers"

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark"

"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms"

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste"

"Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds"

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes"

"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them"

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance"

"Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings"

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas"

"We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry"