the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“And when you write a poem within the accepted poem-form, making it sound like a poem because a poem is a poem… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image