Attention Quote by Alison Hawthorne Deming

I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem.…

— Billy Collins

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

— Samuel R. Delany

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose…

— Pattiann Rogers

There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the cadence, and…

— Masiela Lusha

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

— Ron Padgett

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

— William Beckett

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

“What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write … so long as we write continually as well as we…

— Patricia Goodson

That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on…

— Matthew Zapruder