Attention Quote by Allegra Goodman

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

— Rod McKuen

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be…

— Matthea Harvey

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

— Carl Sandburg

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and…

— Tracy K. Smith

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching…

— Story Musgrave

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art,…

— Kathleen Raine

If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in something visual…

— Richard Hell

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

— George Santayana

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound