Correctness Quote by Aristotle

“Such perfect incompleteness, suggestion and ambiguity are among the most valuable devices of the skilled poet, means by which the poem opens to let…

— John Ciardi

“And however perfectionist you tried to be, in the end words were alive, in constant flux. No dictionary could ever achieve true completion.”

— Shion Miura

“Poetry provides a vehicle that takes me to places that logic won't go. It is a way of understanding the incomprehensible.”

— John A. Vanek

“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Accuracy is sacrificed in the name of better poetry.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities.”

— Aristotle

“It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bought or sold, that it was,…

— Tennessee Williams

“It is better to be wrong than to be vague. In trial and error, the error is the true essential. —FREEMAN DYSON”

— Gregory Benford

“[T]he end cannot justify the means; but if there are no other means, and the end is necessary...”

— James Blish

“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.”

— Charles Bukowski

“The end did not justify the means, but justifiable means that brought about a fair and necessary conclusion were not to be dismissed.”

— Robert Ludlum

“The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.”

— Samuel Johnson