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“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

— Isak Dinesen

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

— Matthea Harvey

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

— Toi Derricotte

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit…

— Rae Armantrout

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

— Horace

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

— Martha Ronk

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

— Mary Webb

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