Art Quote by Campbell McGrath

Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.

— William Carlos Williams

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

— Pattiann Rogers

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

— Paul Verlaine

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

— William Carlos Williams

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.

— Sven Birkerts

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

— Robert Morgan

Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as…

— Yuri Lotman

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

— Mark Doty