Poetics Quote by Jen Besemer

“A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“Poems is what could keep us happy, different words, different poets, different paths.”

— Deyth Banger

“Songwriting is an art distinct from poetry.”

— Nick Hornby

“In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ...”

— Susi Moore

“When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I am. Because…

— Nicholas Trandahl

“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.”

— Nicole Lyons

“I'm trying to let a poem do what a poem does: Make things simpler We don't need poems to make things more complicated We…

— Colleen Hoover

“I'm a poet and you are poetry”

— Dylan Anders Porter

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

“Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.”

— Atticus

“Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they seen as…

— David McDonald

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

— Julian Barnes