Bridges Quote by Hart Crane

Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's always been the language of bridges.

— Amanda Gorman

“A beautiful bridge is a poem.”

— Tessa de Loo

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

— Alice Fulton

Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our…

— Hart Crane

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

— Eugene Chadbourne

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meaning from the veiled truths outside of…

— Bryant McGill

The world does not know it needs poems any longer, but we believe it does.

— Bin Ramke

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

— Maxine Kumin

It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.

— James Wright

To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if…

— Donald Hall

“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for,…

— Louise Glück