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“Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and black. If…

— Gwyneth Lewis

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

“Beautiful dripping fragments—the negligent list of one after another, as I happen to call them to me, or think of them, The real poems,…

— Walt Whitman

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

— Jean Genet

The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.

— Robert Penn Warren

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

— Carl Sandburg

These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point /…

— Kenji Miyazawa

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

— Howard Nemerov

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

— Robert Frost

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

“The scrawled letters form words, the words form lines, the lines form a poem. Your eyes scanning across the page give the poem life.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“the poem is a dice throw on a patch of darkness that may or may not glow”

— Mahmoud Darwish