Contemporary Quote by Martha Ronk

Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually…

— Marge Piercy

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

— Anne Sexton

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

— Rod McKuen

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

— Shirin Neshat

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which…

— Jesmyn Ward

I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures…

— Jane Hirshfield

It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which…

— Helen Bevington

The visual and literary arts are of perennial interest to me, and these art forms have become more and more a part of my…

— Michael Hersch

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn more about…

— Allison Joseph

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

— Samantha Morton

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the…

— Matthea Harvey