For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search… — Yang Wanli Copy Share Image
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I try to use my privilege to deconstruct from inside the racist, homophobic, heterocentric house, as an ally, while compatriot tools dismantle… — James Allen Hall Copy Share Image
When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“Stone: Yes, we are everything, every experience we've ever had, and in some of us, a lot of it translates and makes… — Ruth Stone Copy Share Image
When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image