Dictionary Quote by David Bowie

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

— Steven Wright

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

— Louis Dudek

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

— Khalil Gibran

That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle…

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a massive fan of the dictionary.

— Gemma Collins

A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found…

— Lucy Larcom

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

— Kevin Hart

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and…

— Anonymous

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as…

— James Laughlin

Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.

— Aimee Bender

“The words of a good book may be profuse, but the words of a good poem are profound.”

— Gregory John