Because i can Quote by James Arthur

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

— Wendell Berry

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

— Shirin Neshat

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human…

— Ezra Pound

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

— Stephane Mallarme

You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a…

— Gary Snyder

A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.

— W. H. Auden

In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily…

— William Shenstone

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and…

— Alice Walker

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

— Lewis Carroll

When I think of someone equating poems and machines, it makes me feel like that person would like poems to have a more obvious…

— Elaine Equi