Abstract Quote by Jay Asher

That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about. You may…

— Jay Asher

“That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may…

— Jay Asher

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice…

— Vanna Bonta

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

— Samuel Prout

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

— Jack Gleeson

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

— Gertrude Stein

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving…

— Dan Simmons

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

— Robert Bringhurst

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

— Octavio Paz

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

— Jay Asher