Form Quote by Matthea Harvey

I like poems that are complex.

— Peter Davison

I'm only interested in poetry.

— Charles Bukowski

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

— Bobby McFerrin

I read a lot of poetry. All types of poetry, but mostly Catalan poetry, because I believe poetry is the essence of language. Reading…

— Jaume Cabre

Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this…

— Jane Smiley

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

— Matthea Harvey

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

— Philip Larkin

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

— Matthea Harvey

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

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

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman