Abstract Quote by Hilda Doolittle

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

— Stephane Mallarme

Write the poem only you can write.

— Billy Collins

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

Sometimes you make a rhyme or a beat and you're not sure exactly how you made it, but you can appreciate it in its…

— The Alchemist

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

— Edward Hirsch

When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No,…

— W. S. Merwin

Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.

— Jane Hirshfield

“That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better”

— Jay Asher

The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.

— Kim Hyesoon

Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.

— Stephen Spender

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

— Randall Jarrell