Boring Quote by Louis Dudek

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and…

— John Keats

I think a good poem should have some inscrutable part. You can't quite explain it. The poem can only explain itself to a certain…

— Billy Collins

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

The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and…

— Ben Okri

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read…

— Caroline Kennedy

It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.

— James Wright

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'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

— 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

It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then…

— Edgar Allan Poe

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

— Luis Gonzalez