Accommodate Quote by Don Paterson

So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that we find…

— Don Paterson

“However readers make a book theirs, the end is that book and reader become one. The world that is a book is devoured by…

— Alberto Manguel

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

— Nikki Giovanni

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques…

— Simin Behbahani

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the…

— Yuri Lotman

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich

The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so…

— Dorianne Laux

Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has…

— Kathleen Norris