Becoming Quote by A. R. Ammons

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

— A. R. Ammons

“In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the…

— Linda Hogan

“But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that…

— C.S. Lewis

“She was learning to treat laws as most people treat poems, making them mean whatever she wanted them to without reference to the author's…

— Jane Rule

I feel in poetry there aren't that many rules that you need to absolutely live by depending on your style of poetry.

— Masiela Lusha

Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that…

— Marcus Aurelius

“With poetry, rules are meant to be broken. And that's the beauty of poetry; it's rebellious, like me.”

— Melody Lee

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

— May Sarton

“What is Poetry (My Sonnet, My Rules) Any gargoyle can google the definition of a sonnet, Any robot can write and rhyme 14 lines…

— Abhijit Naskar

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as…

— Jean Giraudoux