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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

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 point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem…

— Anonymous

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment

— W. G. Sebald

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

— Anonymous

To be a poet you have to experiment.

— Matthea Harvey

“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

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

— Anonymous

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

— Henry David Thoreau

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to…

— Thomas Harrison