Lines Quote by James Fenton

The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but…

— Victor Hugo

For me, the measure of a poem is the word, not the line.

— John Kinsella

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

— C. S. Lewis

I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem.…

— Billy Collins

Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality,…

— Jason Reynolds

Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose…

— Campbell McGrath

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given…

— George Oppen

“One line lands in a word and one word lands in a line and there you have it the secret of poetry”

— Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

“the poem doesn’t have stanzas, it has a body, the poem doesn’t have lines,/ it has blood, the poem is not written with letters,…

— José Luís Peixoto

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

— Edward Thomas