Coherence Quote by Alison Hawthorne Deming

The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.

— Louis Dudek

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In Poems of Love and Light: The Light of The Sun…Our Breath as One, the tenor seems to have changed slightly, as the progression…

— Frank L. DeSilva

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

— Edgar Allan Poe

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts.…

— Robert Frost

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not…

— Seamus Heaney

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not…

— Robert Penn Warren

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as…

— James Laughlin

The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused…

— Louise Bogan

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed…

— John Drinkwater

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't…

— James Laughlin

I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out into the…

— James Arthur