Feminine Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine…

— Kim Hyesoon

“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies,…

— Alok Mishra

“Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.”

— Helen Vendler

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will…

— Charles Baudelaire

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

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

— Lucille Clifton

“Life does rhyme: it rhymes all the time.”

— Martin Amis

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

— Carl Sandburg

“When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious- because of…

— Stanislaw Ulam

“Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they seen as…

— David McDonald

Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

— Peter Meinke