Different Quote by Leonard Cohen

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

— Nicholson Baker

A poem has a certain - a different time. For instance, a poem is a very private experience, and it doesn't have a driving…

— Leonard Cohen

But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and…

— Ian Mcewan

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

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

— Edward Hirsch

The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different…

— Alice Oswald

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening…

— Pattiann Rogers

I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times…

— Billy Collins

When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim