Ambiguous Quote by Billy Collins

I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make a discovery…

— Rita Dove

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not…

— Seamus Heaney

The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused…

— Louise Bogan

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

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

— Paul Muldoon

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

— Louis Dudek

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make…

— P. G. Wodehouse

I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out into the…

— James Arthur

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

— Mark Strand

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson