Beautiful Quote by James Laughlin

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the…

— Matthea Harvey

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

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

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

— Matthea Harvey

I think poetry bridges text and image. Poetry is visual in its imagery - but it requires close attention to words themselves. Words become…

— Allegra Goodman

Poetry fills clubs, halls and venues. Poets and poems can talk to the deepest feelings and to the silliest. It can be like stand-up…

— Michael Rosen

Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually…

— Marge Piercy

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's…

— Jane Campion

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay