Poem Needs Quotes
- A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be… — John Keats
- I do believe that a poem needs to remind the reader of his or her own humanity, of what they are, of what they're capable… — Charles Simic
- A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content. — Helen Vendler
- A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied,… — J. D. McClatchy