Bottom Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry's object is truth.

— Christine de Pizan

The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.

— Wendell Berry

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

— E. M. Forster

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

— Rumi

“There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call of a…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects -…

— James Arthur

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

— Helen Hayes

Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit…

— Mary Karr

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

— Marilyn Hacker

Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters.

— Laurence Overmire