Believe Quote by Jonathan W. Galassi

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover…

— Rita Dove

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

— Wendell Berry

I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own.

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way…

— Dorianne Laux

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that…

— Joseph Brodsky

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

— Peter Davison

I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they…

— Natasha Trethewey

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

— Nick Flynn

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

Durable, memorable poetry is usually alert to complexity. A really good poem gives you a reason to read it 20 times, because the language…

— Stephen Burt

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

— Randall Jarrell

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than…

— Orson F. Whitney