Art Quote by Don Paterson

“a poem is just a little machine for remembering itself”

— Kyle Simonsen

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

— Peter Davison

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

— Paul Verlaine

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

— Randall Jarrell

There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.

— William Carlos Williams

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

— William Carlos Williams

A poem is a record of a discovery.

— Ted Kooser

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

— Nick Flynn

Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my…

— Kim Hyesoon

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in…

— Diane Ackerman