"Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter…" — Diane Glancy

Related Quotes

• Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. — Robert Frost
• A poem is a small machine made out of words. — William Carlos Williams
• Poetry is telling something to someone. — Marie Howe
• A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. — Carl Sandburg
• Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation;… — David Whyte
• Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. — Joseph Brodsky
• Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong. — Marilyn Nelson
• Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. — Dennis Gabor