Photograph Quote by Keith Carter

“A photograph is a poem without words”

— Holace

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is good for unleashing images.

— Paula Rego

Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.

— Larry Towell

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

— Anne Sexton

I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of…

— Cate Marvin

“It takes more energy to find the words to describe poems than almost anything I can think of, except of course for trying to…

— Robert Newman

“That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better”

— Jay Asher

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

“The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination.”

— Ocean Crisstopher Poet

I like bringing my poet brain and sensibility to lyrics I write.

— Jamila Woods

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

— Andrei Tarkovsky