Air Quote by Mary Karr

The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.

— Wendell Berry

A poem is a small machine made of words.

— William Carlos Williams

A poem is a small machine made out of words.

— William Carlos Williams

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

— Mark Strand

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

— E. M. Forster

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.

— Mary Ruefle

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

— William Carlos Williams

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

— Gwen Harwood

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

— Robert Pinsky

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

— Stephane Mallarme