Attractive Quote by Anne Carson

A poem should improve on the blank page.

— Nicanor Parra

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

— Gwen Harwood

Its not easy to write a poem about a poem.

— Dejan Stojanovic

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

— James Schuyler

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

— Robert Fitzgerald

A picture is poem without words.

— Confucius

“If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything.…

— J.D. Salinger

A picture is a poem without words

— Horace

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

— Helen Vendler

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it…

— Harold Bloom