Concrete Quote by Matthea Harvey

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

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 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

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

I like poems that are complex.

— Peter Davison

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't…

— James Laughlin

I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world.

— Matthea Harvey

Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are…

— Anne Sexton

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

— Lucie Brock-Broido

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