Charmed Quote by Matthea Harvey

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall…

— James Laughlin

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

— Matthea Harvey

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.

— William Beckett

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham

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

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

— Rita Dove

I'm really into poetry.

— Grace Potter

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

— Matthew Arnold

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

— Rachel Zucker

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

— K'naan