Fancy Quote by John Keats

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.

— Louis Dudek

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or…

— Campbell McGrath

I think a book-length poem stands about as good a chance as a collection of individual poems in reaching its field of ears. This…

— C.D. Wright

A poem round and perfect as a star.

— Alexander Smith

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

— John Drinkwater

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given…

— George Oppen

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.

— Anonymous

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the more interested…

— C.D. Wright

The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you feel deeply..

— Melody Minagar