“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it,… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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