Comparison Quote by Franz Grillparzer

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of…

— Campbell McGrath

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound…

— Eugenio Montale

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

— Roman Jakobson

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we…

— Robert Morgan

The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.

— Wendell Berry

Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

— Amiri Baraka

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

— William Carlos Williams

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be…

— Matthea Harvey

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

— W. H. Auden

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

— Eddie Izzard