Certain Quote by Leonard Cohen

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

— Edward Hirsch

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

— Jane Hirshfield

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can…

— Robert Morgan

One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.

— May Sarton

Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things…

— Mark Strand

A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know? Andit's designed…

— Leonard Cohen

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it…

— Sybil Marshall

The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and you think…

— Maya Angelou

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.

— William Carlos Williams

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in…

— Diane Ackerman

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

— George Santayana

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way,…

— C. K. Williams