Act Quote by Ben Okri

“A poem isn't finished until it's heard.”

— Jade Foster

The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.

— Louis Dudek

“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for,…

— Louise Glück

Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part is not…

— Billy Collins

“Poetry is like...first all you have is... A line weaving through your mind Like the tail of a child's kite Unfettered by reason or…

— Vaddey Ratner

Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and…

— Sarah Kay

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.”

— James Stephens

The true poem rests between the words.

— Vanna Bonta

“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of…

— Jim Carroll