Abhijit-naskar Quote by Abhijit Naskar

“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.”

— John Smyth

“The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes a thousand.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.”

— Sylvia Plath

“but take away his poems and what does he have left? He wants to write more poems, enough to fill half the world.”

— Nachoem M Wijnberg

“I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.”

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

— Diane Wakoski

So many poems you go into and come up empty.

— Maxine Kumin

“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.”

— Nicole Lyons

“His work killed the poet Because he called it complete. After it nothing else could be said.”

— Marne L. Kilates

“Such perfect incompleteness, suggestion and ambiguity are among the most valuable devices of the skilled poet, means by which the poem opens to let…

— John Ciardi

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

— Alice Fulton

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

— Voltaire