Lace Quote by Charles Ghigna

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.

— Carl Sandburg

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

A poem is a small machine made out of words.

— William Carlos Williams

A poem is a small machine made of words.

— William Carlos Williams

A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.

— Juan Felipe Herrera

A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making…

— Franny Billingsley

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in…

— Carl Sandburg

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given…

— George Oppen

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

“Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they seen as…

— David McDonald