Draft Quote by Anonymous

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how…

— Anonymous

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.

— Anonymous

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it…

— Denise Levertov

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a…

— James Dickey

I felt it's vague enough for the reader to pull their own story and their wisdom out of the poem, but for me, it's…

— Masiela Lusha

“I never liked the term “experimental writing,” but what else is a prose poem? Having written a number of them, I still don’t know…

— Russell Edson

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to…

— Seamus Heaney

That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about. You may…

— Jay Asher

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

— Anonymous

I think a good poem should have some inscrutable part. You can't quite explain it. The poem can only explain itself to a certain…

— Billy Collins