Information Quote by E. M. Forster

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

— T. S. Eliot

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

— Muriel Rukeyser

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 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 can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it…

— Samuel Johnson

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

— Louise Rosenblatt

The true poem rests between the words.

— Vanna Bonta

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

— C. S. Lewis

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

— Luis Gonzalez

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Juan Felipe Herrera