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

— 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 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

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

— Max Planck

IF there is no experiment,no observation,without observation,no inference,without inference control conclusion(theory or law)cant be stated.one process leads to another,one step mistook may be the…

— Adewale Ajibola

To be a poet you have to experiment.

— Matthea Harvey

One of the reasons I'm not so keen on people calling me an "experimental" writer is that it suggests the work is about the…

— Steve Erickson

Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and…

— Gaston Bachelard

It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from…

— Cecil Day-Lewis

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

— Edgar Allan Poe

To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which…

— Banesh Hoffmann

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

— Anonymous