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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

— Anonymous

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope…

— Anonymous

A poem is a record of a discovery.

— Ted Kooser

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

“A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul. A poem…

— Tony Hoagland

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to…

— A. R. Ammons

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

— Paul Verlaine

A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.

— W. H. Auden

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.

— William Carlos Williams

A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates.

— Charles Simic

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in…

— Diane Ackerman