Deliberate Quote by Louise Glück

I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

— Gemma Files

A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up - sometimes slowly, like the blooming of a…

— Celeste Ng

I like poems that immediately claim my attention, instead of taking my attention for granted. At first read, I want to feel compelled to…

— James Arthur

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

— Nathalie Sarraute

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off…

— Jean Cocteau

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

— Mark Strand

The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you feel deeply..

— Melody Minagar

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

— Sylvia Plath

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of…

— Joseph Addison